2 political prisoners die in overcrowded Philippine prisons in 3 days
2 political prisoners die in overcrowded Philippine prisons in 3 days 2 minutes read Bangkok, May 11 (EFE).- In the most saturated prison system in the world, shuttered by the Covid-19 pandemic, two political prisoners have died in the Philippines in the last three days, raising the claims for humanitarian releases by relatives of prisoners of conscience. Peasant leader Joseph Canlas, 59, died Tuesday morning of Covid-19 at the Lingad Memorial regional hospital in San Fernando de Pampanga, in the center of the island of Luzon, after being transferred urgently due to respiratory ailments. Pr...
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