Rodrigo Duterte, the former president of the Philippines, has arrived in the Netherlands to face charges linked to the deadly crackdown on drugs he oversaw while in office.
A plane carrying the former leader of the southeast Asian country landed at Rotterdam airport shortly before 4pm UK time.
It was due to land at around 6am but was delayed after a long layover in Dubai, where Mr Duterte received medical checks.
The 79-year-old was arrested for alleged crimes against humanity on a warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC), based in The Hague, early on Tuesday.
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said police detained Mr Duterte when he returned from a trip to Hong Kong and sent him to the ICC.
The ICC case centres on thousands of killings that took place during the former leader’s brutal crackdown on illegal drugs from 2011, when he was a city mayor, to the end of his presidency in 2022.
Police say more than 6,200 people were killed in what they describe as shootouts while he was president from 2016 to 2022.
Human rights groups and the prosecutor of the ICC say as many as 30,000 people may have been killed.
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Police or vigilantes working for them, such as gunmen on motorbikes, were alleged to have killed masses of unarmed suspects while he was in charge. Authorities have denied the claims.
In its warrant, ICC judges said there were “reasonable grounds to believe that [Mr] Duterte is individually responsible for the crime against humanity of murder”.
Should the case progress, Mr Duterte would be the first Asian former head of state to stand trial at the ICC.
The former president’s team declared the arrest unlawful and vowed to fight it.
He previously admitted to having a “death squad” of “gangsters” while he served as mayor of the southern city of Davao, but denied authorising police to shoot suspects when he became president.
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