Why the Philippines’ Ex-President Duterte Was Arrested Now

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By Sui-Lee Wee, Nikolay Nikolov, Rebecca Suner, Karen Hanley and David JouppiMarch 12, 2025

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.

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