Foto/ Purgatori i Dantes ndodhet në Filipine

Elton Tafaruci

Shumë të burgosur në Filipine, flenë me rradhë, në një fushë basketbolli të improvizuar në burg.

Burgu është ndërtuar 60 vjet më parë për 800 të dënuar por aktualish ai mban mbi 4 mijë persona.

Situata është përkeqësuar edhe më shumë nga fushata anti-drogë e presidentit Rodrigo Duterte, i njohur ndryshe si “Ndëshkuesi”

 

Shocking pictures show the 'inhumane' conditions facing thousands of prisoners crammed together in an overcrowded jail in the Philippines

Cramped: Quezon City Jail was built to accomodate 800 inmates but now houses almost 4,000 prisoners

Desperate inmates take it in turns to sleep on an open-air basketball court and a staircase in Quezon City Jail which is holding 4,000 despite being designed to house just 800

Human rights activists have likened the scenes to Dante's 'Purgatory', referring to the 13th century Italian writer's description of the realm where souls await judgement

Philippine officials said today that the government would build new jails to address the crisis, made worse by President Rodrigo Duterte's drug war

Pictures taken by AFP came as an 'eye-opener' for authorities to hasten the construction of a new facility, according to vice mayor Joy Belmonte

Quezon City officials Monday signed an agreement to donate land to the national government for a new prison

The facility in the northern district of Manila would replace the jail built six decades ago

Duterte, who took office on June 30, ordered a bloody war on crime that has left 889 people dead since the May elections

Police have reported arrested more than 5,000 people for drugs offences as part of the campaign

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