Philippines' ex-President Rodrigo Duterte flown to the Hague on ICC charges

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00:00Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is arriving in The Hague on Wednesday to face

00:07charges of crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court.

00:12He was arrested in Manila a day earlier on orders of the ICC, which has been investigating

00:17the mass killings linked to the former president's deadly crackdown on drugs.

00:22Both protesters and supporters of Duterte gathered in front of the ICC in The Hague

00:26ahead of his arrival.

00:28We're in remembering the time during his administration that basically gave a blanket immunity and

00:34encouraged this culture of terror for anyone who was suspected as a drug user and there

00:40was no due process at all.

00:43There were 30,000 people who were killed randomly without due process.

00:48Among them, more than 100 were children.

00:50Duterte will be held in a UN prison complex about two kilometers from the ICC.

00:56After he is taken into custody, he could challenge the court's jurisdiction and the

01:00admissibility of the case.

01:03While the Philippines is no longer a member of the ICC, the alleged crimes happened before

01:08Manila withdrew from the court.

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