Former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte appeared before the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Netherlands on Friday, the court said. The 79-year-old, who landed in the Netherlands on Wednesday,

Marcos explained that Interpol Manila had received an official copy of the ICC warrant against Duterte for his involvement in the war on drugs, prompting the Department of Justice to take action. The Prosecutor General of the DOJ personally served the warrant as Duterte disembarked from his Cathay Pacific flight from Hong Kong at 9:20 a.

Former Philippines leader Rodrigo Duterte was sent to The Hague on Tuesday hours after he was arrested in Manila at the request of the International Criminal Court as part of its probe into a "war on drugs" that defined his presidency.