THE chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP) has defended the detention of a dozen people inside a closet-sized “secret cell” in a case that raised further alarm about abuses under President Rodrigo Duterte’s deadly war on drugs.
The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) discovered a dozen men and women packed into the tiny cell behind a wooden cabinet during an unannounced visit to a police station in Manila’s Tondo district on Thursday.
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