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Interns in a Philippine prison communicate with relatives outside. Stock Photography.
About 10,000 people who have been detained in the Philippines awaiting trial are released, the country’s highest court will announce.
The message comes after reports that the coronavirus is spreading in the country’s highly overcrowded establishments.
– The court is more aware of the congested situation in our prisons, says HD judge Mario Victor Leonen.
It adds that lower courts within the justice system have been instructed that suspects who cannot post bail should not be deprived of liberty pending trial.
The Crown pandemic has prompted human rights organizations to urge the Philippines to release prisoners serving sentences for crimes other than violent crimes, as well as inmates who are ill or older.
About 9,000 cases of virus infection have been recorded in the Philippines. More than 600 have died as a result of covid-19.
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