Attacks and threats against the media Archives | Page 27 of 38

Group of municipal councilors bars journalists from covering election

CMFR/Philippines – An official barred journalists from covering the election of officers of a provincial league of municipal councilors in the town of Virac, province of Catanduanes, on 2 September 2013. Catanduanes province is some 500 kilometers south of Manila. Radyo ng Bayan-Virac station manager Arlene Bagadiong together with...

Fugitive demands 40 million pesos in damages from reporters

CMFR/Philippines – A businesswoman turned fugitive for her alleged involvement in a multi-billion peso corruption scandal filed four separate libel complaints against a blogger, two reporters, two editors and a publisher, as well as a fashion designer, on 6 and 7 August 2013 in Taguig City, Manila. For each...

Continuing threats against TV broadcaster turn personal (UPDATED)

CMFR/Philippines – The most recent threats sent on 9 August 2013 to a television broadcaster in Manila have gone personal. The threats are linked to a report she made on a tax evasion case filed by the Philippine government against a lawyer of the Ampatuan clan who reportedly bought...

Police officer attacks journalists covering protest

CMFR/Philippines – A police officer allegedly attacked a journalist from an online newspaper and his colleague, and damaged cameras and other equipment during the dispersal of protesters along Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City, Manila, during President Benigno S. Aquino III’s fourth State of the Nation Address last 22 July...

Threats continue against national TV broadcaster

CMFR/Philippines – A television broadcaster in Manila continued to receive threatening text messages, most recently on 2 August 2013. The threats are linked to a report she made on a tax evasion case filed by the Philippine government against a lawyer of the Ampatuan clan who reportedly bought property...

TV broadcaster receives more threatening texts after airing Ampatuan-related report

CMFR/Philippines – A television broadcaster in Manila received more threatening text messages last 27 and 29 July 2013 after receiving threats via SMS last July 24. The messages were sent in connection with the broadcaster’s report on a tax evasion case filed against the lawyer of one of...

TV broadcaster receives threatening text message

CMFR/Philippines – A television news broadcaster in Manila tweeted a screen grab of a threatening text message she received after she aired a report last 24 July 2013. The report was about a tax evasion case against a lawyer of one of the Ampatuans who reportedly bought property owned...

Seven broadcasters facing libel suit

CMFR/Philippines – Five broadcasters and two radio station owners in Camarines Norte province filed counter-affidavits last 4 June 2013 in response to a libel case filed against them by the province’s governor, who claims a comment aired over two radio stations last 2 April 2013 implied that he “paid...

Radio host punched three times, sent three bullets the next day

CMFR/Philippines – The security officer of a governor threatened and physically assaulted a radio broadcaster last 11 July 2013 in Daet town, Camarines Norte province, some 300 kilometers southwest of Manila. The next day, July 12, the broadcaster received a white box containing a death threat and three bullets....

Dipolog blocktimer arrested, house and radio station shot at (UPDATED)

UPDATE: On 28 May 2013, Dipolog’s Office of the City Prosecutor wrote to one of the signatories in International Freedom of Expression eXchange’s (IFEX) appeal, the Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE), that after investigating, they have concluded that a police officer’s warrantless arrest of a radio blocktimer was...