Manila, Philippines — The Philippine government said that former Philippine President Rodrigo Dutee was arrested by the police on Tuesday at the International Airport of Manila on the order of the International Criminal Court at the International Airport of Manila in a crime case against humanity filed against him.
The office of President Ferdinand Marcos said in a statement that Duterte was arrested after arriving from Hong Kong and the police had taken him into custody on ICC orders, which took place against illegal drugs under the deadly murder of the former President, investigating massive murders.
The International Police’s Manila office received an official copy of the arrest warrant from the global court and the former President was given notice for arrest warrant.
It was not immediately clear where the Dutert was taken by the police. The government said that the 79 -year -old former leaders were in good health and were investigated by government doctors.
“He is now in the custody of the authorities,” the government said.
The ICC began an investigation into drug killing under Duterte on 1 November 2011, when he was still the mayor of the southern city of Davo, as possible crimes against humanity on 16 March 2019. Duterte withdrew to the Philippines in 2019 from the law of Rome in 2019, in a trick human rights activists say it was aimed at avoiding accountability.
The Dutert administration went to suspend the global court investigation at the end of 2021, arguing that the Philippine officials were already looking into the same allegations, the ICC – a court of the final resort – did not have the jurisdiction.
The appeal judges at the ICC ruled in 2023 and the investigation could resume and dismissed the dute administration objections. Based on the Hague, the Netherlands, the ICC can move when the countries are reluctant or unable to prosecute suspects in the most heinous international crimes, including crime against genocide, war crime and humanity.
President Ferdinand Marcos Junior, who succeeded Duterte in 2022 and got involved in a bitter political dispute with the former President, has decided not to join the global court again. But the Marcos administration has stated that if the ICC asks the International Police to detain Dutee through the so -called red notice, it will cooperate, to detect a request to law enforcement agencies worldwide and temporarily arrest the crime suspect.
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