Ex-Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte arrested for crimes against humanity

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MANILA: Former Philippine president Rodrigo Dworte was arrested by police in Manila on Tuesday by police on a warrant against drugs on a warrant against an international criminal court (ICC).

According to the ICC, a 79 -year -old man faces charges of “crime against humanity”, for the crackdown that the rights groups estimate that tens of thousands of poor men were killed, often without the fact that they are linked to drugs.

“Early in the morning, Interpol Manila received an official copy of the arrest warrant from the ICC,” the Presidential Palace said in a statement.

“So far, he is in the custody of the authorities,” he added, “The former president and his group have good health and are being checked by government doctors.”

Salvador Peno, a former chief legal lawyer of Dort, called the arrest “illegal”.

“(Filipino National Police) did not allow one of his lawyer to meet him at the airport and ask a legal question on the PRRD’s arrest,” he said.

But a group that worked to help the mothers killed in the Dawort drug drugs have termed the arrest “very welcome development”.

AFP told AFP, “Mothers and children whose husbands and children were killed due to drug war are happy because they have been waiting for it for a long time,” AFP told AFP for a long time, “AFP told AFP.

Meanwhile, Human Rights Watch called on President Ferdinand Marcus’ government to “surrender to the ICC”, saying the arrest was “an important step for accountability in the Philippines”.

Is still very popular

Manila’s International Airport was detained after a short journey to Hong Kong on Tuesday morning.

Talking to thousands of Filipino workers there on Sunday, the former president decided to investigate, saying that if the arrest falls, he will “accept” it.

The Philippines had left the ICC in 2019 on Dutta’s instructions, but the tribunal maintained that it had the jurisdiction of the casualties before the bridge out, as well as the Southern city of Daoo several years ago when the Dorties were mayor.

He launched a formal inquiry in September 2021, just two months later, after his suspension, Manila said he was re -examining several hundred incidents of drug operations, which led to the deaths of police, hitmen and surveillance.

The case resumed in July 2023 when a panel of five judges rejected the Philippines’ objection that the court’s jurisdiction was lacking.

Since then, the Marcus government has said on several examples that it will not cooperate in the investigation.

But on Sunday, the Under Secretary of the Presidential Communications Office Claire Castro said that if Interpol “seeks necessary help from the government, it is obliged to implement it”.

Dorties are still very popular among many people in the Philippines who supported their immediate solution to the crime, and is a powerful political force.

He is fleeing to claim his job as mayor of his stronghold in the mid -May elections.

A handful of drug operations have been charged locally, causing death – only nine police have been convicted for killing alleged drugs.

A self -based killer, Dawort, instructed the police to shoot the suspects of the drug if their lives were at risk and called for the crackdown to save the families and prevented the Philippines from being transformed into a “Narco Political State”.

At the inauguration of the Drug War Filipino Senate investigation in October, Dawort said he offered “apologies, no excuse” for his actions.

He said, “I did what I had to do, and whether you believe it or not, I did it for my country.”