Given his previously untouchable status, the arrest and potential prosecution of former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte by the International Criminal Court (ICC) is a surprising development.

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.

On Friday afternoon, Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte appeared for the first time before judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC), after his sensational extradition to The Hague earlier in the week.