section_path: Criticism and opposition/Philippines
section_name: Philippines
paragraph_text: Philippines
  
  Following the announcement that the ICC would open a preliminary investigation on the Philippines in connection to its escalating drug war, President Rodrigo Duterte announced on 14 March 2018 that the Philippines would start to submit plans to withdraw, completing the process on 17 March 2019. The ICC pointed out that it retained jurisdiction over the Philippines during the period when it was a state party to the Rome Statute, from November 2011 to March 2019.
  
  On 11 March 2025, Duterte was arrested on an ICC warrant pursuant to his role in the Philippine Drug War and flown from Manila to The Hague.