JAKARTA - Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was taken on a jet after being arrested at the request of the International Criminal Court (ICC) for murder in the fight against drugs he initiated.
Veronica Duterte, Duterte's youngest daughter, said on Instagram her father boarded the plane but her family had not been informed of her purpose.
"They took the father from us, took him on the plane and didn't say where. People, build him," he wrote.
ABS-CBN News uploaded a video on X showing Duterte boarding a jet at Manila airport.
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Meanwhile, the Philippine Star newspaper said it had received confirmation from a senior police official, the plane headed for The Hague, where the ICC is based.
Duterte, the former mayor who led the Philippines from 2016 to 2022, was arrested at Manila airport upon arrival from Hong Kong on Tuesday morning.
Duterte's arrest of the ICC investigation into thousands of murders in an anti-drug crackdown marking his presidential term.
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