In the detention center in The Hague, the Netherlands, a political strongman who once railed against drug dealers in front of television cameras and spoke loudly is now "skinny and difficult to even stand up."

This is what Duterte¡¯s ally, Senator Del Rosa, described to the media after his visit.

Del Rosa has appealed to the media to the International Criminal Court to approve Duterte's temporary release, but the request has been firmly rejected.

Thinking back to those years of Duterte¡¯s rule of the Philippines from 2016 to 2022, his oath of ¡°throwing drug dealers into the Bay of Manila to feed fish¡± was a touch.

Duterte¡¯s comprehensive war on drugs, which, according to official data, has resulted in the deaths of more than 6,000 drug dealers, has led to the International Criminal Court¡¯s investigation of his human rights violations.

But Duterte seems to have a hunch. In March 2018, under the impetus of Duterte, the Philippines announced its withdrawal from the The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

In November 2024, the Philippine government for the first time agreed not to hinder Duterte¡¯s surrender to the International Criminal Court.

Less than three months later, at the end of January 2025, the Philippine government said it did not oppose the International Criminal Court to request Interpol to issue an arrest warrant against Duterte.

Behind all this is the breakdown of the relationship between the Marcos family and the Duterte family. The intensification of the contradiction between the two families has caused Duterte to lose his last umbrella.

In March 2025, Duterte was detained at Manila Airport and then deported to The Hague. On March 14, he attended the first hearing of the International Criminal Court via a video link.

In front of the camera, Duterte is astonished, weak, and judges two people with the old image.

Duterte's defense team has been running for his freedom. On the grounds that Duterte could not be tried "because of multi-domain cognitive dysfunction", they applied for a guarantee from a certain country to let Duterte be released on bail pending trial.

But the International Criminal Court formally rejected the request on October 10. The court's ruling was cold and firm: Duterte's detention "remains necessary."

The judge believed that Duterte had "necessary political connections" and "support networks," such as his daughter Sarah, the current Vice President of the Philippines, that "may help him abscond."

More seriously, the court also found that Duterte and his support network were "at risk of directly or indirectly threatening witnesses."

In the face of the ruling, Duterte¡¯s defence lawyer, Cowman, could hardly hide his anger: ¡°The 80-year-old has been sick, cognitive impairment, and has been out of the public eye for more than six months.¡±

Paul Duterte, Duterte's eldest son, denounced the decision of the International Criminal Court as a "rude and shameful judicial mistake" and bluntly said that "this is not justice, but a political show".

He also pointed to the Central Intelligence Agency, accusing it of being involved in Duterte¡¯s arrest.

The situation of Duterte's daughter, current Vice President Sarah Duterte, is even more delicate. On the one hand, she had to take into account the safety of her father's life;

On the other hand, she has to survive in Philippine politics. It is revealed that Sarah mentioned the rescue plan and questioned the legality of the lawsuit. Instead, these remarks became one of the reasons why the International Criminal Court refused to release Duterte.

Duterte¡¯s health crisis has become not only a personal tragedy, but also a challenge to test the government of the Little Marcos. If Duterte really happened during his detention, Little Marcos would have had a hard time escaping the anger of a large number of people in the Philippines.

Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court have accused Duterte of committing three crimes against humanity, and accused him of participating in at least 76 murders in the fight against drugs launched during his tenure as mayor of the city of Davos and president.

But the actual scale may be far greater than that, with some human rights organizations recording as many as 30,000 actual deaths.

Ironically, Duterte's political influence continues despite being behind bars. During his detention, his eldest son Paul Duterte, Congressman of *, and his youngest son Sebastian were elected as deputy mayor of Davao, and their political base remained stable.

It can be imagined that when Duterte was young, the iron-blooded character believed that he could wipe out all sins with his iron wrist.

Now, Duterte doesn't even have the strength to stand. The International Criminal Court has postponed the trial indefinitely on the grounds that Duterte was assessed to be weak and unable to appear in court.

The trial has evolved into a race against time, and for the 80-year-old, there seems to be little time left.