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Sammilito Pahela Basihaikh Udjapan Committee organized a cultural programme at Chittagong DC Hall recently.

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Lawmakers , rights groups for swift reforms to Philippines penal system

AFP, Manila : Images of hellish conditions at an overcrowded Philippines jail triggered calls Thursday from lawmakers and rights groups for swift reforms to the penal system which is under strain from an anti-drugs crackdown.AFP photographs of the Quezon City Jail, where thousands of inmates are forced to sleep on stairs or on cracked cement floors in unimaginable squalor, highlighted the crisis which is worsening under President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on crime.“It’s an image straight out of Dante’s ‘Purgatory’,” Human Rights...

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