Rodrigo Duterte in ICC custody after arrival in the Netherlands
by Rebecca Ratcliffe, Kate Lamb and Oliver Holmes from World news | The Guardian on (#6VVWZ)
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The former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte has landed in the Netherlands and been taken into the custody of the international criminal court (ICC) on allegations of overseeing death squads in his bloody war on drugs".
Duterte was arrested in Manila on Tuesday and placed on a private jet to Rotterdam by police. The plane landed on Wednesday afternoon and taxied into a hangar. An ambulance dropped medics nearby before they wheeled a gurney inside the aircraft.
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