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Some detainees claimed that the police demanded between P30,000 to P100,000 from them in exchange of their release. [2] Others claimed that they were being tortured. [9] One of the detainees inside the secret jail, a woman, in an interview of DZMM-AM, said that one of the police demanded her a P50,000, in exchange of her release, after she is being accused of involvement in an illegal drug ...
Clarita frequented the bars and taverns of the city and solicited men for harlotry. On May 6, 1953, [4] she mistakenly offered her service to a plainclothes police officer and was incarcerated at the Old Bilibid Prison (now Manila City Jail), as she was a minor and prostitution was illegal. [5]
Philippine extrajudicial killings are politically motivated murders committed by government officers, punished by local and international law or convention.They include assassinations; deaths due to strafing or indiscriminate firing; massacre; summary execution is done if the victim becomes passive before the moment of death (i.e., abduction leading to death); assassination means forthwith or ...
On June 27, 2017, according to the authorities, a security guard named Dexter Carlos found that, upon arriving at his house at 8:45 a.m. (), [2] the five members of his family were dead inside his house at Block 1, Lot 8, North Ridge Royal Subdivision in Barangay Santo Cristo, San Jose del Monte, Bulacan. [3]
All but one of the convicts were part of the Wild Boys of DaPeCol. The Protestant group had conducted a prayer service at the prison shortly before being taken hostage. [1] [7] [8] The Wild Boys took the hostages to protest against prison conditions and demanded to speak with Congressman Ramon Mitra and Senator Nina Rasul. Both politicians ...
Manila City Jail as seen from the Line 1–Line 2 walkway. The 2.4-hectare (5.9-acre) Manila City Jail has the capacity to house 1,100 inmates. [1] [10] [12]Operating at an average of 463.6% occupancy, detention centers in the Philippines are the second most overcrowded in the world. [14]
Malacañang Palace: The official residence and principal workplace of the President of the Philippines is considered by believers to be haunted by numerous ghosts such as those of former presidents Manuel L. Quezon, Manuel Roxas, and Ramon Magsaysay (who all died in office), former presidential aides and attendants, those from the pre-Hispanic ...
Considered as a pioneer of psychological horror film genre in the Philippines, its subject matter and themes, especially drawn inspirations and parallels from true crime stories, marked the first major treatment of incest in Philippine cinema, while its message has been viewed as a commentary against the patriarchy and the regime of then ...