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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...

Radio commentator shot dead in southern Philippines

CMFR/Philippines – In the sixth case of its kind this year, two men riding tandem on a motorcycle shot dead a radio commentator in Iligan City on 29 August 2013. Iligan City in Mindanao Island is some 1,400 kilometers south of Manila. Radio commentator Fernando “Nanding” Solijon was shot...

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...

R2KRN: FOI advocates joining Luneta indignation on budget scam

CMFR is a member of the Right to Know. Right Now! Coalition (R2KRN)—a network of about 160 organizations and individuals from various social sectors and civil society groups, which have long been campaigning for the passage of a Freedom of Information (FOI) Act. The Right to Know. Right Now! Coalition...

Two wanted for murder of columnists

CMFR/Philippines – The police have formally charged two suspects for the 30 July 2013 murder of two tabloid columnists in Quezon City, Manila. The suspects have yet to be arrested. The police have not concluded that the victims were killed for their work. But the family members of one...

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...

Another journalist shot dead in the Philippines; 16th in Aquino administration

CMFR/Philippines – Another journalist was shot dead in General Santos City in the province of South Cotabato yesterday, 1 August 2013. An unidentified gunman entered the home of photojournalist Mario Sy at around 8:30 p.m. and shot him twice, according to the police. If his killing was work-related, Sy...

Two columnists shot dead in Manila

CMFR/Philippines – Two newspaper columnists were shot dead on 30 July 2013 in Quezon City in the National Capital Region (NCR). The daughter of one of the slain said that the killing might be work-related, in a rare case of Manila-based journalists being killed. Most of the 131 journalists...