Hours before former President Rodrigo Duterte's family and lawyers publicly claimed his arrest a "kidnapping," around 200 seemingly unconnected Facebook accounts and pages had already posted the same exact text that accused law enforcers of abducting Duterte to the International Criminal Court.

Most crimes everywhere have always gone unpunished. So, while the arrest of former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte by the International Criminal Court (ICC) last week for the ‘crime against humanity’ of mass murder was long overdue, it also came as a great surprise.

On Friday afternoon, Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte appeared for the first time before judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC), after his sensational extradition to The Hague earlier in the week.