Arrest warrant issued for Filipino senator over war on drugs | The World | ABC NEWS

A Filipino senator who oversaw former president Rodrigo Duterte's deadly war on drugs has avoided arrest by locking himself inside the country's senate. The International Criminal Court has issued a warrant for the arrest of Ronald 'Bato' Dela Rosa on suspicion of crimes against humanity. But Dela Rosa ran away from agents and hid in his senate office where he was placed under protective custody. Aries Arugay from the Yusof Ishak Institute gave The World his analysis of the dramatic scenes.

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