By bno - Taipei Bureau Police in The Philippines have arrested former President Rodrigo Duterte on an International Criminal Court (ICC) warrant linked to an investigation into his highly controversial 'war on drugs' in which many thousands were killed.

Rodrigo Duterte gave a speech in Hong Kong in which he again defended his brutal crackdown as president of the Philippines. He was arrested returning to Manila.

Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is now in the custody of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Netherlands following his dramatic arrest in Manila the day before over a brutal, years-long anti-drugs crackdown that left thousands of his citizens dead.

A Philippine general says that ex-Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte threatened him with lawsuits, refused to be fingerprinted and told law enforcers “you have to kill me to bring me to The Hague.”

Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is being flown to the Netherlands to face an International Criminal Court charge of crimes against humanity linked to the deadly crackdown on drugs he overs

Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has been turned over to the custody of the International Criminal Court

Rodrigo Duterte carried out a war on drugs in the Philippines that rights groups say killed 30,000 people. Sui-Lee Wee, the Southeast Asia bureau chief of The New York Times, explains how Duterte came to be arrested by Philippine police and put on a plane to the Netherlands to face charges of crimes against humanity.