00:00Supporters of Philippines' Rodrigo Duterte rallied outside the airbase where the firebrand
00:08former leader is being held on Tuesday after he was arrested at the request of the International
00:14Criminal Court.
00:16Authorities scaled up security with dozens of police guarding the Villamor airbase where
00:20Duterte's supporters had gathered and chanted slogans.
00:28Duterte was served an Interpol arrest warrant on his arrival at Manila's main airport and
00:33was in custody, the office of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said in a statement on Tuesday.
00:40The arrest follows years of Duterte taunting the International Criminal Court since he
00:44unilaterally withdrew the Philippines from the court's founding treaty in 2019 as it
00:50started looking into allegations of systematic extrajudicial killings on his watch.
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