Rodrigo Duterte previously insisted that the ICC has no jurisdiction over the Philippines, since he pulled the country out of the tribunal in 2019, three years after it took note of the drug war's rising death toll.

A jet that took former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte from Manila landed Wednesday in the Netherlands a day after he was arrested on an International Criminal Court warrant accusing him of crimes against humanity over deadly anti-drugs crackdowns he oversaw while in office. Rights groups and families of victims hailed Duterte's arrest.

Former Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte arrived in the Netherlands on Wednesday for his expected handover to the International Criminal Court following his arrest on murder charges linked to his war on drugs,