He can go to hell,” Duterte said in an after-hours scrum with the media, “He is not a special person and I do not recognize his rapporteur title.”

The Thursday previous to Duterte’s tirade, Garcia-Sayan had told a group of reporters in Manila that he believed the ouster organized by Duterte was extrajudicial and likely illegal. READ MORE: 'I Hope He Considers Me Friend': Philippines' Duterte Calls Kim Jong-un His Idol

The comment followed after García-Sayán said on Friday, that the country's judicial independence was under threat, addressing the Philippine Supreme Court's decision to remove Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno. Duterte’s latest profanity-laced diatribe came after Diego Garcia-Sayan, the UN special rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, said the president’s statements against former chief justice Maria Lourdes Sereno were a “vicious attack” on the judiciary. “Tell him not to interfere with the affairs of my country,” Duterte said when asked about the criticism by Diego García-Sayán, a U.N. special rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers. He can go to hell,” Duterte told a news conference late Saturday night, prior to leaving for an official visit to South Korea.
Shortly before leaving for South Korea, the President of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, tells the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers Diego García Sayán that "he can go to hell".