{"id":81578,"date":"2016-09-29T02:41:42","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T06:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=81578"},"modified":"2025-01-08T20:08:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T01:08:48","slug":"8-inmates-fight-philippine-prison-1-chinese-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/09\/29\/8-inmates-fight-philippine-prison-1-chinese-killed\/","title":{"rendered":"Up to 8 inmates fight in Philippine prison, 1 Chinese killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_77731\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-77731\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/NBPtoday.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-77731\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/NBPtoday.jpg\" alt=\"New Bilibid Prison (Photo: Dennis Monzon\/Wikipedia)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/NBPtoday.jpg 500w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/NBPtoday-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-77731\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New Bilibid Prison (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Bilibid_Prison\" target=\"_blank\">Dennis Monzon\/Wikipedia<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA, Philippines\u2014Up to eight inmates fought at the Philippine national penitentiary Wednesday, leaving a high-profile Chinese drug lord dead and four other inmates injured, officials said. The melee occurred amid a congressional investigation into the drug trade within the facility.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II said a riot broke out Wednesday after an inmate reprimanded three Chinese drug convicts who were using methamphetamine.<\/p>\n<p>He identified the dead as Tony Co. He said Co and two other injured Chinese convicts are among the biggest drug traders in the country.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy female cialis online <a href=\"https:\/\/sballergy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/female-cialis.html\">https:\/\/sballergy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/female-cialis.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> Also injured was Jaybee Sebastian, a prison leader being asked by officials to testify in the congressional investigation against Senator Leila de Lima.<\/p>\n<p>De Lima, a former justice secretary, has said Sebastian was a tipster who gave her department information that led to a 2014 raid of the penitentiary. The raid exposed how high-profile convicts lived in air-conditioned villas equipped with hot tubs and disco lights.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy synthroid online <a href=\"https:\/\/sballergy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/synthroid.html\">https:\/\/sballergy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/synthroid.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> Guns, counting machines, cellphones and other gadgets were confiscated.<\/p>\n<p>As former head of the Commission on Human Rights, De Lima earned Duterte&#8217;s ire for investigating his alleged links to death squads in southern Davao City, where was mayor. She also recently led a Senate investigation into Duterte&#8217;s anti-drug war that has left more than 3,000 suspected drug pushers and users dead.<\/p>\n<p>Duterte has accused De Lima of collecting money from the illegal drugs trade operated by drug lords from the penitentiary\u2014a charge de Lima calls \u201clies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bureau of Corrections director Rolando Asuncion says the seven to eight inmates involved in the riot are from two rival gangs. The violence ended quickly and occurred in a contained area separate from the larger inmate population. He said it&#8217;s not clear what kind of injuries the victims sustained but an ice pick and other materials were confiscated.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy amoxicillin online <a href=\"https:\/\/sballergy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/amoxicillin.html\">https:\/\/sballergy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/amoxicillin.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>De Lima expressed doubts Wednesday that what happened was a real riot, saying the prisoners involved were those who refused to testify against her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, Philippines\u2014Up to eight inmates fought at the Philippine national penitentiary Wednesday, leaving a high-profile Chinese drug lord dead and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":77731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,16,95],"tags":[4395,3181,2407,4521,343,3595,12005],"class_list":["post-81578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-illegal-drugs","tag-inmates","tag-leila-de-lima","tag-new-bilibid-prison","tag-philippines","tag-prisoners","tag-vitaliano-aguirre","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281243,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81578\/revisions\/281243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}