At least 107 Muslim Filipinos, including seven women,...

At least 107 Muslim Filipinos, including seven women, are languishing in jails in the southern Philippines on suspicion of being members or sympathisers of the Abu Sayyaf Muslim separatist group.
Walden Bello, head of the 14-member mission that visited the southern city of Zamboanga and Basilan Province said: "We encountered numerous cases of warrantless arrests, imprisonment of minors and a pregnant woman, allegations of extra-judicial execution and allegations of torture via electric shock" Bello said.
The mission, composed of representatives from Japan, Europe, the United States, Italy, Australia and the Philippines, also said that government soldiers allegedly gunned down two Basilan residents.