MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine police say they will take mugshots and fingerprints of former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo after arresting her in a hospital room on electoral fraud charges.
Seventeen months after stepping down, Arroyo became the second ex-Philippine president to face trial. She denies wrongdoing and accuses authorities of preventing her from seeking overseas medical treatment.
Police served an arrest warrant in Arroyo’s 16th-floor hospital suite late Friday. It capped a day of legal drama in which the Supreme Court upheld her right to travel but a lower court later accepted the formal charges against her.
Police official James Bucayu said Arroyo will be booked in her hospital room Saturday “when she is ready.”
