Still on his side: Supporters rallying outside Villamor Air Base near Manila after Duterte’s arrest. — AP
The country arrested firebrand former president Rodrigo Duterte at the request of the International Criminal Court, a major step in the world body’s investigation into thousands of killings in a bloody “war on drugs” that defined his presidency.
Duterte, the maverick former mayor who led the Philippines from 2016 to 2022, was served an arrest warrant on arrival from Hong Kong at Manila’s main airport and is now in custody, the office of his successor Ferdinand Marcos Jr said in a statement.
