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.

Duterte, who was arrested at a Manila airport following a trip to Hong Kong, was flown via a Gulfstream G550 private jet to Dubai and then Rotterdam. He will be brought to The Hague, where the ICC is headquartered, if a local Dutch court determines the arrest is valid, according to a Philippine government spokesperson.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Philippine ex-President Rodrigo Duterte landed Wednesday in the Netherlands a day after he was arrested in Manila on an International Criminal Court warrant accusing him of crimes against humanity over deadly anti-drugs crackdowns he oversaw while in office.