Naked prisoners in Philippine jail means uproar
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MANILA: Photos display hundreds of prisoners in a Philippine jail sitting exposed while being searched for taboo triggered accusations of serve rights abuses in President Rodrigo Duterte’s fight on drugs.
The inmates of a Cebu provincial jail forced to frame while anti-drug agents, troops and troops searched their cells, jail officer Rafael Espina said.
Photos expelled by a Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency and provincial troops showed a inmates sitting exposed and cross-legged as armed troops rhythmical them.
A matter expelled by a drug coercion group pronounced a raid had netted ‘several packets’ of methamphetamines and pot leaves, as good as knives and mobile phones.
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“This occurrence clearly amounts to cruel, inhumane and spiritless diagnosis of prisoners,” Amnesty International pronounced in a statement.
The NGO cited United Nations’ standards and Philippine laws in punctuating a requirement of authorities to safeguard prisoners were not subjected to woe or ill-treatment.
Human Rights Watch also pronounced general standards taboo searches that intimidated or unnecessarily intruded on a prisoner’s privacy.
The matter went on to say, “the control of these searches — out in a open and needing photographs to be taken — was evil and spiritless and disregarded a prisoners’ rights to privacy.”
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