The arrest of former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has given a timely boost to the International Criminal Court, which is facing U.S. sanctions and an investigation into alleged sexual misconduct by its chief prosecutor.

Former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has arrived in the Netherlands on Wednesday and will head to The Hague following his dramatic arrest in Manila the day before, on an International Criminal Court (ICC) warrant,

Rodrigo Duterte previously insisted that the ICC has no jurisdiction over the Philippines, since he pulled the country out of the tribunal in 2019, three years after it took note of the drug war's rising death toll.