How arrest of Philippines’ Duterte unfolded: ‘you have to kill me to bring me to The Hague’

The court announced late on Thursday that Duterte is scheduled to make his first appearance before ICC judges on Friday. At the hearing he will be informed of the charges against him, read his rights and a date will be set for a further pretrial hearing.

Duterte’s stunning reversal of fortune has been celebrated by human rights groups as a historic triumph against state impunity, while his supporters have slammed what they call the current government’s surrendering of a rival to a court whose jurisdiction they dispute.