Veronica "Kitty" Duterte will seek the intervention of the Supreme Court to bring back her father, former president Rodrigo Duterte, to the Philippines following his arrest by the International Criminal Court (ICC), lawyer Salvador Panelo said.

Panelo said he and his son, Salvador Paolo Jr., will assist Veronica when she files a petition for a writ of habeas corpus at 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday, March 12, 2025 to "bring back" former president Rodrigo Duterte after he was flown out of the country late Tuesday.

In a statement, Panelo said the petition would be "against the Philippine government for detaining a Filipino citizen, former President Rodrigo Duterte, kidnapping him, and surrendering him to a foreign institution."

"The petition will ask the Supreme Court to compel the government to bring him back, and for it to account for its constitutional transgressions on the rights of PRRD (Duterte), and its unpatriotic and abject surrender of the country’s sovereignty to ICC, that has no jurisdiction over the former," he said.

"The petitioner will be Veronica A. Duterte, the former president’s daughter," he added.

The writ of habeas corpus is an order issued by a court directing a person detaining another to produce the physical body of the detainee at a designated time and place, and to explain the reason for the detention.

President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. late Tuesday night faced the media and announced that former President Rodrigo Duterte was being brought to The Hague in the Netherlands to face charges in connection with the killings in the past administration's war on drugs.

Veronica on Tuesday afternoon said that authorities are not allowing her father to get the medical attention he needs after being arrested for crimes against humanity.

Panelo also said that the arrest of the former president was unlawful.

“He was deprived of legal representation at the time of his arrest. The PNP could not have a hard copy [of] the warrant arrest. By not allowing one of his lawyers to meet him, the arresting [officer] could avoid being asked if they have the hard copy of the arrest warrant,” Panelo said.

“It is an illegal arrest because the ICC arrest warrant comes from a spurious source, the ICC, which has no jurisdiction over the Philippines,” he added.

(Reports from GMA Integrated News)