General News category, third prize, photographer: Noel Celis/Philippines. Inside The Philippines’ Most Overcrowded Jail: Conditions are actually getting worse than this scene from Quezon City Jail shows, as police wage an unprecedented war on crime. There are 3,800 inmates in the jail, which was built six decades ago to house 800, and they engage in a relentless contest for space. Men take turns to sleep on the cracked cement floor of an open-air basketball court, the steps of staircases (pictured), underneath beds and in hammocks made out of old blankets.
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World Press Photo of the Year 2017: An Assassination In Turkey, photographer: Burhan Ozbilici/Syria. Mevlut Mert Altintas, a 22-year-old off-duty police officer, shouts after shooting Russian ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov (on the floor) at an art gallery in Ankara, on Dec 19, 2016. The image is part of a series titled ‘An assassination In Turkey’ which also won the Spot News – Stories category, captured in the moments before and after Altintas shot Karlov.[/caption]
Brandishing a gun, his face contorted with rage, the shocking image of a Turkish policeman just after he had assassinated the Russian envoy to Turkey won the prestigious 2017 World Press Photo Award on Feb 13.
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