‘Test the waters’: rumoured ICC plan to arrest Duterte ally grips Philippines
The Philippine government is facing mounting legal and political uncertainty after reports emerged that the International Criminal Court (ICC) may have issued an arrest warrant for Senator Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa – the former national police chief widely seen as the main enforcer of former president Rodrigo Duterte’s violent war on drugs. Dela Rosa, a…
The alleged warrant, first hinted at by a senior official in a recent radio interview, would mark the second time a top Duterte-era figure has been targeted by the ICC.

