Foreign Affairs

The Philippines has pledged to cooperate with a request from the International Criminal Court (ICC) to detain a prominent politician who evaded arrest earlier this week as he fled the Senate building despite efforts by the army to arrest him and reports of gunfire.

Justice Secretary Fredderick Vida said on Friday that Manila had received the court’s arrest warrant for Senator Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa, the country’s former national police chief, and considers it valid.
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It was not clear who fired the shots, but by Thursday, the Senate president confirmed that dela Rosa was no longer in the building.

With the senator’s whereabouts unknown, Vida warned that any efforts to help dela Rosa leave the country would be treated as a “mockery of justice”.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/15/philippines-vows-to-hand-fugitive-senator-to-icc-following-shootout