The arrest of the former Filipino leader, Duttrt, on the authority of the International Criminal Court due to drug killings

Manila, the Philippines (AP) – The Philippine government said former Philippine President Rodrigo Deuttri was arrested by the police at Manila International Airport on Tuesday based on an international criminal court in relation to the case of a crime against humanity against him.

President Ferdinand Marcus’s office said in a statement that Dutti was arrested after his arrival from Hong Kong and the police took him in his detention on the orders of the International Criminal Court, which was investigating the huge killings that occurred under the campaign of the deadly president against illegal drugs.

“Upon his arrival, the Prosecutor served the International Criminal Court to issue an arrest warrant for the former president of crime crime against humanity,” the government statement. “He is now in the seizure of the authorities.”

The sudden arrest caused a stir at the airport, as the lawyers and Duttrt assistants protested loudly as, with a doctor and lawyers, who were prevented from approaching him after he was detained in the police seizure. “This is a violation of his constitutional right,” Senator Bong, my league ally. He told reporters.

The government said that the Manila International Police Office received an official copy of the arrest warrant from the World Court.

It was not immediately clear where the police took my life. The government said that the former 79 -year -old leader was in good health and was examined by government doctors.

The International Criminal Court began investigating drug killings under the leadership of Doteri from November 1, 2011, when the mayor of the southern city of Davao was still to March 16, 2019, as possible crimes against humanity. In 2019, the Philippines Dotti pulled out of the Rome law in a move that human rights activists say aims to escape accountability.

The Dutti administration moved to suspend the international court’s investigation in late 2021 on the pretext that the Philippine authorities were already discussing the same allegations, on the pretext that the International Criminal Court – the last resort court – had no jurisdiction.

In 2023, the Appeal Judges of the International Criminal Court died that the investigation could appeal and reject the Duttrt administration’s objections. Its headquarters in The Hague, the Netherlands, the International Criminal Court can intervene when countries are unwilling or unable to prosecute the most hideous international suspects, including genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.

President Ferdinand Marcus Junior, who succeeded Dotte in 2022 and became intertwined in a bitter political conflict with the former president, decided not to join the World Court. But the Marcus administration said it would cooperate if the International Criminal Court asked the International Police to detain Dotrt through the so -called red notice, and to request law enforcement agencies all over the world to determine its location and arrest it temporarily to a crime.