Attacks and threats against the media Archives - Page 3 of 34 - CMFR

Rappler reporter removed from NCRPO messaging group

CMFR/PHILIPPINES — A Rappler reporter was removed from the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) messaging group after the online news organization published the story on NCRPPO chief Major General Debold Sinas’ birthday celebration inside Camp Bagong Diwa on May 8 which violated quarantine protocols. NCRPO’s public information officer...

Government anti-communist task force posts propaganda against ABS-CBN, Rappler’s Maria Ressa

CMFR/PHILIPPINES — The National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC), the government’s anti-communist task force, published social media posts on 9 May 2020 denying that the closure of ABS-CBN network is an attack on press freedom and accusing Rappler’s Maria Ressa of spreading fake news about...

Dumaguete broadcaster gets death threat

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – Two days after a radio broadcaster was killed in Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental, a journalist in the same city received a death threat on 7 May 2020. Dumaguete City is 639.71 km south of Manila. The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines reported that Roy August...

ABS-CBN goes off air following NTC’s cease and desist order

CMFR/PHILIPPINES — The country’s biggest broadcast network, ABS-CBN, ceased its radio and television operations nationwide on 5 May 2020, in compliance with an order from the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC), which reneged on its earlier commitment to provide the network with a provisional license. The NTC issued a cease...

Dumaguete radio broadcaster shot dead

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – A radio broadcaster was gunned down and killed by still unidentified assailants in Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental on 5 May 2020. Dumaguete City is 639.71 km south of Manila. The attack happened two days after the celebration of World Press Freedom Day and an hour after ABS-CBN...

Philippines Graphic website hacked

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – The website of a Manila-based weekly news magazine was hacked by still unidentified parties on 18 April 2020. Clicking links to stories published by the Philippines Graphic redirects readers to a pornographic website, according to editor-in-chief Joel Pablo Salud. Salud told the National Union of Journalists of...

Student journalist harassed in Nueva Ecija

CMFR/PHILIPPINES — A student journalist was forced by barangay officials in Nueva Ecija on 6 April 2020 to publicly apologize after a heated exchange with his former teachers in Facebook over the government’s poor response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Nueva Ecija is 140 kilometers north of Manila. Joshua Molo,...

2 journalists, 17 others face charges for alleged coronavirus ‘fake news’

CMFR/PHILIPPINES — Two journalists in the province of Cavite are facing the possibility of two months imprisonment and a fine of up to PHP1 million pesos ($19,706.72) as a result of charges filed by the Philippine National Police Anti-Cybercrime Unit in Region IV-A on 28 March 2020. Cavite is...

Journalist arrested in police raid

CMFR/PHILIPPINES — Eastern Vista newspaper Executive Director Frenchiemae Cumpio was arrested, along with four others, in simultaneous raids by Leyte police today, 7 February 2020 in Tacloban City. Tacloban is 572 kilometers south of Manila. In an earlier report, Cumpio told CMFR about the continuing harassment she has been...

Community publication executive director threatened

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – An unidentified man bearing a bouquet of flowers and a photo of Eastern Vista newspaper Executive Director Frenchiemae Cumpio visited the office in Tacloban City, Leyte on 31 January 2020. Tacloban is 572 kilometers from Manila. Cumpio told CMFR the unknown visitor was described as “military-looking” by the...

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