{"id":53338,"date":"2025-03-11T06:46:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T06:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/former-philippine-president-duterte-arrested\/"},"modified":"2025-03-11T06:51:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T06:51:41","slug":"former-philippine-president-duterte-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/former-philippine-president-duterte-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Philippine President Duterte arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Presidential Communications Office confirmed that Interpol in Manila received an official copy of the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) earlier that morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUpon his arrival, the prosecutor general served the ICC notification for an arrest warrant to the former president for the crime of crime against humanity,\u201d the government said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s now in the custody of authorities,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>The charge of crimes against humanity stems from Duterte\u2019s harsh anti-drug campaign. During his presidency from 2016 to 2022, the controversial \u201cwar on drugs\u201d led to thousands of deaths, including those of children, with the arrest warrant stating that suspects were denied due process under the law.<\/p>\n<p>Human Rights Watch (HRW) welcomed Duterte\u2019s arrest, calling it \u201ca crucial step toward accountability in the Philippines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Philippines withdrew from the ICC in 2019, during Duterte\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n<p>As president, Duterte spearheaded a controversial &#8220;war on drugs,&#8221; which garnered significant attention both locally and internationally.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-83389\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/high_wm.jpg\" alt=\"Former Philippine President Duterte has been taken into Police custody. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was arrested upon his return from Hong Kong to Manila on Tuesday, according to local media reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000083388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-53338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000083388,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/high_wm-3.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/high_wm-3.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/high_wm-3.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/high_wm-3.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/high_wm-3.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/high_wm-3.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000083388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53338"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=53338"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=53338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}