“He’s getting rice. That’s what we asked for and it’s cooked perfectly. Correct according to Filipino taste,” said Sara Duterte.
He was asking for his personal clothes and a supply of diet cola, she said.
Sara Duterte had earlier Sunday addressed a crowd of several thousand gathered in spring sunshine on the Malieveld in The Hague.
Supporters shouted “bring him home”, with pro-Duterte demonstrators believing the former president was “kidnapped” to face the ICC.
His lawyer Salvador Medialdea told the court on March 14 his client had been “abducted from his country”.
“He was summarily transported to The Hague. To lawyers it’s extrajudicial rendition. For less legal minds, it’s pure and simple kidnapping,” said Medialdea.
In the ICC chief prosecutor’s application for his arrest, he said Duterte’s alleged crimes were “part of a widespread and systematic attack directed against the civilian population in the Philippines”.
“Potentially tens of thousands of killings were perpetrated,” the prosecutor alleged of the campaign that targeted mostly poor men, often without proof they were linked to drugs.
Victims’ families have welcomed the ICC proceedings as a chance for justice, while Duterte supporters believe he was sent to The Hague amid a spectacular fall-out with the ruling Marcos family.
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