"World leaders gathered at The Hague, Netherlands for a 'Bring Him Home' meeting to talk about the release of former president Rodrigo Duterte," reads part of the Tagalog-language caption of a TikTok video shared on June 26, 2025.
It adds that leaders "agreed with the ICC to release FPRRD (former president Rodrigo Roa Duterte) at the soonest possible date".
The video, which has been viewed more than 180,000 times, appears to show an image of world leaders such as US President Donald Trump and France's Emmanuel Macron standing behind a cardboard cutout of Duterte. Posters reading "Bring Him Home" can also be seen plastered on walls in the background.
The post surfaced after leaders of NATO countries met at The Hague on June 24 and 25, with the Western political and military alliance agreeing to massively ramp up their defence spending to satisfy Trump (archived here and here).
The US leader had repeatedly suggested Washington could withhold protection from European countries unwilling to spend more on defence, but signed off on a final declaration confirming an "ironclad commitment" to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's collective defence pledge that an attack on one is an attack on all.
The Hague is also where Duterte has been detained since early March for alleged crimes against humanity tied to his crackdown on drugs that killed thousands of mostly poor men (archived link).
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