Duterte not deprived of counsel, food, medicine when arrested —CIDG

Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) chief Police General Major General Nicolas Torre III on Thursday denied that former president Rodrigo Duterte was deprived of his needs when he was taken into custody at the Villamor Air Base last Tuesday.

''There's no deprivation of legal counsel, 'yung medicine niya, food niya, wala po 'yun. Naibigay po natin lahat ng 'yun,'' Torre said during a discussion with Palace Press Officer Undersecretary Atty. Claire Castro. 

(There's no deprivation of legal counsel, of medicines, and food. We provided all of that.)

Veronica ''Kitty'' Duterte, the former president's daughter, claimed authorities did not allow her father to get the medical attention he needed after he was arrested for charges of murder as a crime against humanity. 

Kitty shared a photo of her father’s medical certificate signed by a physician, indicating that the 79-year-old former president consulted for follow-up care for diabetes management, following his arrest.

The younger Duterte also claimed that they were "being illegally detained" at the 250th Presidential Airlift Wing headquarters inside the base. 

It was Torre who read the Miranda Rights to the former president when he was placed in the custody of authorities after the International Criminal Court (ICC) ordered his arrest. 

The Miranda doctrine informs a suspect being arrested of his or her rights to remain silent and to have competent and independent counsel.

The private plane carrying Duterte departed the Philippines on Tuesday evening heading to The Hague in the Netherlands.

Early Thursday morning (Philippine time), Duterte entered the Hague Penitentiary Institution or the Scheveningen Prison where he is set to be held while awaiting trial. —RF, GMA Integrated News