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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...

Police officer mauls, arrests radio reporter

CMFR/ Philippines – A senior police officer allegedly mauled and arrested a radio reporter on November 10 in a police station in Marikina City, Metro Manila. The police officer has been relieved from his post pending an investigation.

Radio correspondent shot dead in QC; 150th killing of journalist since 1986 if work-related

CMFR/ Philippines – Two days before the commemoration of the International Day to End Impunity on November 2, an unidentified assailant shot dead a radio correspondent in front of a fast food restaurant in Brgy. Kaligayahan, Quezon City, Metro Manila on October 31.