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Journalists shot at in Maguindanao

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – Three Mindanao correspondents were reportedly shot at during a supposed clash between the Philippine Army and alleged members of the separatist group Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) on 1 October 2008 in Maguindanao. Maguindanao is approximately 903 kms from Manila. However, the MILF said it had no...

Update on the Rolando Ureta case hearing

The Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility has created a video report on the Sept. 16 hearing of the murder case filed against the alleged killers of radio broadcaster Rolando Ureta.

Publisher jailed for libel, libel conviction of another affirmed

CMFR/Philippines—The publisher of a daily newspaper in Manila was arrested on 4 September 2008 for libel, while another newspaper publisher’s libel conviction was affirmed after a judge denied her motion for reconsideration. Amado Macasaet, publisher of the daily newspaper Malaya (Free) as well as the tabloid Abante (Forward), was...

Radio broadcaster dies five days after being shot

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – A radio broadcaster died of his wounds 9 August 2008, five days after he was shot by unknown assailants in General Santos City, South Cotabato. General Santos is approximately 1,049 kms. southeast of Manila. Dennis Cuesta, a commentator and program director of dxMD-Radio Mindanao Network (RMN) in...

Broadcaster killed in Capiz

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – A radio broadcaster was killed on 7 August 2008 by a gunman riding pillion on a motorcycle in Roxas City, Capiz. Capiz is approximately 411 kms southeast of Manila. Martin Roxas, program director of dyVR-Radio Mindanao Network (RMN) in Roxas, was shot in the nape. Roxas was...

Mindoro journalist’s petition for writ of amparo denied

In what could be a setback to the campaign for legal protection of journalists under threat, the Manila Court of Appeals denied on 27 June 2008 a petition for a writ of amparo filed by an Oriental Mindoro-based journalist. Oriental Mindoro is a province approximately 140 kms south of...

Media groups ask Supreme Court to issue habeas corpus for jailed broadcaster

CMFR/Philippines – Last 30 May 2008, media groups filed a petition for habeas corpus before the Philippine Supreme Court asking for the release of jailed radio commentator Alexander “Alex” Adonis. The Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility and the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines, questioned before the...

Jail official refuses to release broadcaster despite court order

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – A jail official refused on 26 May 2008 to release a radio commentator jailed for libel since last year despite a court order. The warden of the Davao Penal Colony (Dapecol) in Davao del Norte has not released radio broadcaster Alexander “Alex” Adonis despite being paroled by...

Case against Esperat masterminds stalled as court grants injunction

CMFR/Philippines–The Cebu Court of Appeals issued on 14 May 2008 a writ of preliminary injunction prohibiting the Cebu City Regional Trial Court (RTC) from proceeding with the case against the suspected masterminds in the 2005 murder of journalist Marlene Esperat. Cebu is a province approximately 562 km south of...

Correspondents threatened by local government official

CMFR/Philippines—Two provincial correspondents of a national broadsheet said they were indirectly threatened with harm by a local government official in Alfonso Lista, Ifugao on 10 May 2008. Ifugao is a province approximately 350 km northeast of Manila. Reporter Maria Elena Catajan and photographer Redjie Cawis, both correspondents of the...