The Ombudsman has dismissed criminal and administrative charges filed by former detained activist Reina Mae Nasino against police and jail officers over their "inhuman" acts when she was detained.

Due to a lack of probable cause and substantial evidence, the Ombudsman junked the case against the chief and members of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology, the Manila Police District, the Manila City Jail Female Dormitory, and several police and jail officers.

Nasino sued them in 2020 for "acts of torture."

She filed the complaint before the Ombudsman weeks after her child, River Emmanuelle, whom she carried while detained and separated from her after birth, died at three months old due to pneumonia.

A judge from the Manila Regional Trial Court ordered separating River from Nasino, notwithstanding her plea to stay with her child for a year to breastfeed.

Nasino accused the police and jail officers of mental or psychological torture, maltreatment of prisoners, grave coercion, torture, conduct prejudicial to the best interest of the service, grave abuse of authority, grave misconduct, and oppression.

However, the Ombudsman ruled that "there is no probable cause that any of the respondents committed the crimes charged."

"They neither imposed a punishment not authorized by the regulations nor inflicted (authorized) punishment in a cruel and humiliating manner," the decision reads.

According to the Ombudsman, jail and police officers prevented Nasino "from doing certain acts under the authority of law, not by violence, threats, or intimidation."

"They did not violate her rights as a detainee," it ruled.

"Further, the alleged acts do not constitute torture or other cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment or punishment," it added.

Nasino was arrested in November 2019 while she was pregnant. She was charged with illegal possession of firearms and explosives, which she claimed to be false.

In December 2022, she walked free from jail following Manila RTC's release order.

Meanwhile, the Ombudsman reprimanded MCJFD officer-in-charge Ignacia Monteron after she was found guilty of the Breastfeeding Promotion Act of 2009 "for failing to establish a lactation station within the MCJFD."