naval base in florida on friday so some were detained friends of his that were also on that basis i understand it and i also was told that some one or 2 were filming it what's unclear is where they filming it before it began or was it something where they picked up their phones and filmed it once they saw it unfolding that may be a distinction with or without a difference but again i it's why i think we need to let the investigation play out 3 saudi soldiers have been killed in fighting near the yemeni border according to the saudi news agency it happened in the southern jews on region and 2 days after a building collapse in kenya rescue crews of found a pair of survivors a 6 story residential building in nairobi fell to the ground on friday killing at least 5 people there are still 2 dozen missing here up to date with the headlines here on al-jazeera one i want to east is next.

in the philippines president retreat go deter site is declared a war on drugs that's left more than 12000 people dead. but they're not the only victims it's also left tens of thousands of people languishing in giles is caught struggle to process a record number of drug arrests. i thought where am i why am i here i shouldn't be here what is this place. i'm on a one ace we investigate the shocking conditions inside the world's most congested giles and the inmates trying to survive.

it's early in the morning and a full name is rising. in the shadows like thousands of bodies waged into every corner of every inch. welcome to manila city jail one of the most congested prisons in the world 2. we've been given an extended access he is to find out why chance in the philippines a so overcrowded and to meet the inmates who've been called monsters by their own government. to tell me about the job. just peaceful here on the south side j. rex pristine is the jail's chief records office uk even he is shocked by the conditions

here right now based on the united nations' minimum standards our idea of capacity should be around $1100.00 inmates but the actual jail population right now is up to $6300.00 inmates. that's almost 600 percent of the capacity. we should be scared you know because we can be outnumbered. and that's not an exaggeration according to international standards this should be one god for a free 7 prisoners. the ratio here is one to about 200. to cut officials have adopted some unusual solutions. i think the most unique yes when we use the inmates the police are there to him if. they elect their own leaders and then we delegate some of our authority again to their need there's. the

marshalls they help us in such a peace in order to. post in here a admits the jails here have always been crowded but it has reached unprecedented levels since president rhodri go to to take announced his war on drugs. arjay population has increased by 50 percent since that since 26 being where the time where he took office lives are at 50 percent yeah 50 percent. in the slums of manilla this war has become infamous for the extrajudicial killing of thousands of drug suspects rights groups accuse the police of being involved.

but look beyond the bloodshed and you find tens of thousands of people who are incarcerated indefinitely after being arrested for drug crimes. to see this campaign in action we joined the drug enforcement agency on an operation to boston a suspected dealer. in a manila parking lot undercover agents away saying in this car to buy crystal meth or shopping from the suspect. it was a difficult mission. and. it's a tense weiss as agents negotiate the deal so we're still waiting for. the driver of the car. that was subtle in the least slashed.

the agency losing to make the rest. of. the people. they see is just on the hof a kilo of shabu with a street value of about $60000.00. how much jail time is to looking at. the. there are humans. in the later years and. the operation is a success but our investigation suggests that not all drug arrests this clean. since 2016 almost 160000 people have been arrested in the anti narcotics campaign. guilty or not they go straight to prisons like manila city jail . jails in the philippines were built to hold around 20000 people

but today they housing more than 130000 most of these people haven't even been convicted of a crime based still waiting for a verdict in the case of. one of the inmates stuck in this limbo is good they're maupassant he's already spent more than 2 years here for a verdict in his drug case. we miss him as he's heading to yet another court hearing. the 1st time i set foot inside here i felt like i was being choked. i thought where am i why am i here i shouldn't be here what is this place. suddenly i found myself crying i was so scared. i was charged with section $5.11 possession and dealing drugs the police report

that he was busted with 0.24 grams of shoppers but glamour says he was set up by a good cop during a drug operation in his neighborhood. one a policeman shouted at the restaurant he has a gun i was like wait i don't have to go. when they didn't find anything but the same policeman said. i'm going to charge you with $511.00 a much more serious crime. says the officers planted evidence against him at the police station now i'm going to be on the table there was already the evidence and they told me to point at it so they can take a photo but i refused i said that's not mine why do i have to point out that. they told me do you want us to kill you we should have killed you while ago. they

asked me how much can you give i said what do you mean they said just give us $2000.00 you can bill yourself out. i told them i don't have any money i'm poor. i have to admit i was skeptical of clare my story almost everyone in jail says they're innocent but he says he has no reason to lie he's already pled guilty to the charges. even if you didn't do anything you have to admit to it just so you can plea bargain to be released early . we have to bite the bullet we don't have a choice. we're doing this for the sake of our family. there is no bail for drug offenses if clare mo fought the charges he could spend years in prison just waiting for a verdict. by pleading guilty he got

a reduced sentence that technically he's already served. and now. i guess i know i'm going. to get them. after a long ways. it's finally go their most turn to appear before the judge. but within minutes he's back out in the hallway the judge did not grant his release he still has to have a mandatory drug test to determine if he's an addict and that could take months. when there might is devastated. he was sure he was going home to his family i don't know i don't know about the i don't know that we live in. such

a big it that. i am not of the number they will not. let. you know you're watching them over them some. might be more. but the. most my son is having a big enough. there most not the only one having a rough day at the course how many people here are here for drugs cases raise your hat. most people ok and how many people here had their hearings canceled up a sport raise your hands. so all of these people out here schedule but as you can see a lot of them never got to come before a judge. every time a hearing is perspiring and it prolongs the trial adding months to an inmate's

incarceration. the courts a so of a stretch that this happens all the time leaving people stranded behind bars for years. it's enough to push some to suicide by. the. at the jail inmates have 'd set up a support group to help each other cope good morning by me being. a. month 11 thinking chuckle. or 6 months like most of the prisoners many here were arrested for drugs. i think about right. now. but maybe only. these sessions are led by 58 year old reyes. he's one of the prisons longest serving inmates

with his trial dragging on now for more than 14 years. he says is what's kept him a mind if. my government. building be matt damon. among the young men up our gear up people here no drink or no ma'am. was a decorated public servant working for the manila city council but in 2004 he was charged with falsifying public documents and embezzling money charges he says were politically motivated what should we do when we have a bear we have here in the gate what shall we do. our hand do or. have you ever been convicted of a crime no conviction. we.

really have a hell you know has been acquitted of over 20 cases but he still has more than 50 pending today he's missing a jail paralegal to find out if his hearings can be fast tracked. about. a building new member appearing schoolma'am. a. 200 behaving better mom. now you will not be my more done when they land. at this race he could die in jail before the court gets through all his cases you have spent more than 14 years in jail are you not angry or this are about being forced to stay here if you are angry you will not carry by. or.

need to get i will be my main. about me because i used to be born a mini i. love. all the office a can do is fill out a complaint form. but if he's disappointed he doesn't show it he says today he wants to forget his problems. it's prisoner awareness week and everyone else in the jail isn't it funny. and dance competitions. and the hill is leading the charge ensued. families have also come to watch the festivities. they're allowed in he has 6 days

a week wives even get conjugal visits and children get to spend time with their father. many inmates tell me that this is the only thing that keeps them sane. people don't have visited us they get depressed. they start thinking too much they always wonder why they don't have any visitors. but claire mo doesn't allow his children to visit he can't bear for them to see him behind bars. you know they. all have. their most is that even though he can't be with his children he tries to be

a good father but it's not easy. and they're now. but i. mean i don't. think. this policy of the law isn't about this is my responsibility as a father. i never experienced my father's love in that i never felt his love even that i'm the man. and i'm one of the saudi diggle i promised myself that when i have kids i will never let them experience what my father said it to me. oh oh oh oh. oh. oh. oh oh oh. oh.

i don't feel it. was a good love a nice. little. things outside 7. has a visit. his youngest daughter. because he asks us to conceal her identity he doesn't want to be stigmatized because of his imprisonment things have been done about. the whole thing. it's a bad. thing. they've been on the apostle. was a father of 5 when he was sent to jail now they have kids of their own you know up on a chain shotgun on the pavement. but despite

everything the hero says he's grateful in spite of my many years good in the game the fun mimics they've been my boy she'll be very very good. she is policing the road and the molder and the bugger children and belle big over all grown. it's been a good day for heavier than. the time has passed to quickly get over the. fun they got out of the figure among my i'm among them on the provisional which alone is not going to. as much as the love seeing his family the hillier says it's on bearable watching them leave . is also having

a tough nice to spending the day watching other fathers spend time with their children. sitting between us my kids are my strength. and that's why i'm trying to be strong. for them. he prays for them every nice he says he can never forgive the police for separating him from his family 7 their motto is to serve and protect but the reality is they only serve and protect themselves. again and again inmates told me disturbing stories about police misconduct allegations of torture extortion and the planting of evidence. but they didn't have proof. then i came across a chilling story. a team of

journalists and human rights activists raided a police station in manila after receiving a tip off what they found inside was shocking. behind this bookshelf diane covered a windowless secret cell hiding 12 terrified people respond to. that to the police. and then the men all. they were detained as drug suspects but none of them had been charged with a crime in fact the station had no record of them at all the i'm not. saying anything bad about that and i was failed. i know. that. the detainees said this cell had no water or functioning toilet they were difficult using and plastic bags they said police had tortured them and demanded money for

their release wouldn't. you know really quite a bit of gossip in the country no no one could afford. i don't know what is going to go crazy i. think i'm going to be enough money on the patio. and i'm going to buy those a lot of. the commander of the station denies the allegations he said that simply run out of space in the holding cell phone example i was. talking to that was the british way to find out if we know. that it was and that would be the motivation that you know like that everything that you have to. they warn of this. since the raid none of the officers from the station have been fired. meanwhile the detainees have been

forced into hiding. we tracked down one of the men who was in that cell look at who . we didn't know. when we arrived they just punched me and told me to confess to having drugs but they weren't mine they didn't find anything on me. this former detainees has been in hiding for months terrified of police retribution he says he spent 9 days in that cell while police try to force a confession. after my arrest they wouldn't stop beating me. every night they would bring me out of the cell and say let's kill this guy in a drug operation. or i was bleeding sweating i even urinated. did you think it was strange that the police were locking you up in this hidden cell. they put us in that cell so they could extort money from us that's the truth

i was told i'd be released if i gave them about a $1000.00 but if none of us could pay they were charging us with section 511. we try to put these allegations to the philippine national police they would not talk to us but activists say that police misconduct is endemic with impoverished and innocent people routinely arrested. it's an experience that. says he's had 1st hand. in most of us out of 100 percent i only have 5 percent faith in the police by. so many of my neighbors are in jail with me. our whole communities here. calero says the police and the law have failed him even after pleading guilty and serving the sentence for

a crime he says he didn't commit he's still stuck in prison there. today he's finally getting his court ordered drug test he needs a clean urine sample and the green light from a doctor before he can be released would. but also a little by little i know a lot of unemployed and a lot of the no police for months mostly to say i don't mind your 6 months talk to hussein one brand has been working in drug rehabilitation facility he has. what was your assessment of the stick a sign that they're going i see my son not a drug user has that using drugs anymore and therefore there is no in there based on our part to do in your experience to a lot of people are not using drugs at mit to stick drugs just to get out of jail there are there are people who i mean by less selfish less to be able to get out of

. the life. see their most says he has lost faith in justice. now he can only tune to god and the president mr president mr president not everyone who is in jail is. not everyone is a bad person or that we are human beings like you. after more than 14 years the hell you know is also desperately trying to hold on to his face he still believes that one day he will be free a student. had a purpose that might actually these things have a purpose i really really i've been cleaned up i shouldn't be here

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