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Radio Broadcaster Convicted of Libel, Radio Station Ordered to Close in Gingoog City

CMFR/ Philippines- A radio blocktimer was convicted of libel while a local radio station was ordered to stop operations in Gingoog City, Misamis Oriental. Misamis Oriental is 1389 kilometers south of Metro Manila. Investigators of the National Bureau of Investigation in Northern Mindanao arrested on 20 February 2016 a local broadcaster...

Radio Reporter Shot Dead in Zamboanga del Sur; First Journalist Killed in 2016

CMFR/Philippines – An unidentified assailant shot dead a radio broadcaster inside his house in Purok Bagong Silang, Poblacion, Zamboanga del Sur on February 16. Zamboanga del Sur is 1156 kilometers south of Manila. Broadcaster Elvis Ordaniza of the Pagadian City-based dxWO Power 99 FM was preparing dinner at about...

Government TV Reporter Harassed in NAPC Event

CMFR/Philippines – A reporter for a state-owned television network complained that he was prevented from reentering the venue of an event organized by the National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC) last February 17 at the University of the Philippines (UP) Bahay ng Alumni in Diliman, Quezon City. He was also “verbally...

Criminal Libel Suits Against Journalists

A journalist was convicted of libel and another arrested in the Philippines on the same charge in less than two months. But two other libel cases against media workers were dismissed during the same period. Libel is still a criminal offense in the Philippines despite calls for its decriminalization....

In the Philippines: Three Journalists Were Killed for Their Work in 2015

THE CENTER for Media Freedom and Responsibility takes exception to the statement in the 2015 Committee to Protect Journalists’ (CPJ) report on the killing of journalists worldwide that no journalists in the Philippines were killed for a work-related reason last year.

TV News Team Ambushed in Marawi City

CMFR/ Philippines – Four unidentified men on two motorcycles ambushed a television news team in Marawi City on December 26. Marawi City is 1497 kilometers south of Manila. No one in the team was hurt.

Militia Leader Threatens to Ambush Journalists in Mindanao

CMFR/ PHILIPPINES – A leader of an anti-communist militia group implicated in the killing of several members of an indigenous people's community in Mindanao allegedly threatened to ambush Mindanao-based journalists who would cover the 47th anniversary of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) on December 26.

TV Broadcaster Threatened

CMFR/Philippines – A television news broadcaster in Pampanga received a death threat through text messages last November 11, 2015.

Men in Break-in Try Identified

CMFR/ Philippines -- Two of the armed men who tried to break into Aksyon Radyo station in Iloilo City and took one of the station's close circuit television (CCTV) cameras on November 19 have been identified. Iloilo city is 600 kilometers south of Manila.

Ending the Killing of Journalists: State Action Urgently Needed

Statement of the Freedom Fund for Filipino Journalists The United Nations declared November 2 as International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists. However, press freedom advocates in the Philippines focus on November 23 to commemorate the 2009 Ampatuan Massacre in which 58 men and women including 32 journalists...