Advertisement
The Philippines
AsiaSoutheast Asia

Sara Duterte returns to Philippines from The Hague to face midterm election clash

‘My job here is done’, Rodrigo Duterte’s daughter said before her departure from the Netherlands, where her father is in ICC detention

Reading Time:2 minutes
Why you can trust SCMP
1
Philippine Vice-President Sara Duterte-Carpio arrives to address people gathered outside the International Criminal Court in The Hague on March 14. Photo: AFP
Agence France-Presse

Impeached Philippine Vice-President Sara Duterte-Carpio has returned home after nearly a month at her father’s side in The Hague, where he is facing a charge of crimes against humanity, her communications team said on Monday.

“My job here is done,” she told reporters ahead of her departure, saying former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte’s legal team was now set and she had filed the “last document” needed at the International Criminal Court.

The vice-president added the family no longer intends to seek financial aid to pay for her father’s defence. “If we need to [sell] things to support our financial needs, we will do that,” she said.

Rodrigo Duterte was arrested on March 11 and whisked away the same day to the Netherlands-based tribunal to face charges tied to his drug war, in which thousands of mostly poor men were killed.

02:23

Former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte arrested under ICC warrant

Former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte arrested under ICC warrant

Daughter Sara followed him to The Hague immediately after and had been coordinating his legal affairs and acting as his mouthpiece, holding a number of press conferences outside the court building.

She landed at Manila’s international airport on Sunday night, according to her communications team.

Advertisement