Philippine Court Orders Sara Duterte's Arrest on 3 Threat Charges, Sets $1,900 Bail
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Updated · Al Jazeera English · Sep 4
Philippine Court Orders Sara Duterte's Arrest on 3 Threat Charges, Sets $1,900 Bail
3 articles · Updated · Al Jazeera English · Sep 4
Summary
A Quezon City court issued an arrest warrant for Vice President Sara Duterte after rejecting her lawyers’ bid to delay it, escalating a case tied to alleged threats against President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
Three grave-threat charges filed last month stem from Duterte’s November 2024 statement that she had arranged a hitman to kill Marcos, his wife and then-House Speaker Martin Romualdez if she were killed.
Bail was set at $1,900 for each count, and officials expect Duterte to post it quickly, making immediate detention unlikely; a conviction would carry at most six months in jail.
The criminal case feeds into a Senate impeachment trial that has run for nine weeks, where the same threats are central alongside separate corruption and unexplained-wealth allegations.
A guilty impeachment verdict would remove Duterte from office and likely end her 2028 presidential bid, deepening the rupture in the 2022 Marcos-Duterte alliance.