Asia | A strongman in the dock

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WHEN RODRIGO DUTERTE was arrested on the morning of March 11th, as he stepped off a plane in Manila, hundreds of supporters thronged outside the airbase to protest. Their hero, a former president of the Philippines, had been denied due process, they claimed.

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