Manila, Philippines—Former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte was arrested Tuesday in Manila by police acting on an International Criminal Court
Policemen gather as they wait for the arrival of former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte at Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Pasay, metro Manila on March 11, 2025. Former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte was arrested on March 11 after landing at Manila's international airport by police acting on an International Criminal Court warrant over his deadly war on drugs, the presidential palace said.
Duterte was arrested after landing at Manila’s international airport following a brief trip to Hong Kong. It launched a formal inquiry in September 2021, only to suspend it two months later after Manila said it was re-examining several hundred cases of drug operations that led to deaths at the hands of police, hitmen and vigilantes.
But Undersecretary of the Presidential Communications Office Claire Castro on Sunday said that if Interpol would “ask the necessary assistance from the government, it is obliged to follow.”
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