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Arrest warrants out for alleged masterminds of journalist killing

CMFR/Philippines—A Regional Trial Court (RTC) judge in Cebu City, Cebu province issued arrest warrants on 4 February 2008 for the two alleged masterminds behind the killing of journalist Marlene Esperat. Cebu is a province approximately 562 km south of Manila. Cebu City Regional Trial Court Branch 7 Judge Simeon...

Judge upholds court’s jurisdiction over journalist murder case

CMFR/Philippines – A Cebu City Regional Trial Court (RTC) judge denied on 18 February 2008 a motion by two defendants accused of masterminding the murder of journalist Marlene Esperat. The motion sought to quash the charges filed by the state prosecutor against them on 1 February 2008. Cebu is...

Broadcaster jailed for libel

CMFR/Philippines—A provincial radio commentator has now spent over a week in jail after being arrested on 22 January 2008 for failing to attend his libel case hearings. No bail was recommended for his imprisonment. Julito “Lito” Ucab, a freelance radio commentator in Cagayan de Oro, is now behind bars...

Journalists file suits to stop threats; court issues order against harassment

CMFR/Philippines—Over a hundred journalists filed two separate suits on 28 January 2008 in a unified effort to halt government threats against the press as well as further arrests. Makati City Regional Trial Court (RTC) Executive Judge Winlove Dumayas granted a 72-hour temporary restraining order (TRO) barring the police, military,...

Broadcaster jailed for libel

CMFR/Philippines—A provincial radio commentator has been over a week in jail after being arrested on 22 January 2008 for failing to attend court hearings. No bail was recommended for his release. Julito “Lito” Ucab, a freelance radio commentator in Cagayan de Oro, is now behind bars in the Butuan...

Journalists seek court protection from government

CMFR/Philippines—Eleven journalists and media technicians from the Philippines’ biggest television network arrested for covering an incident involving about 20 soldiers in the Manila Peninsula Hotel last November have asked the Philippine Supreme Court to declare their arrest illegal and to protect them and other journalists from future government harassment....

Two suspects in journalist’s killing six years ago arraigned

CMFR/Philippines—Two suspects in the killing of a broadcast journalist were arraigned on 10 January 2008, more than half a decade after the murder. Rolando Ureta, then 30, was killed on his way home onboard his motorcycle in Lezo, Aklan after his evening news broadcast on 3 January 2001 when...

Class suit against Arroyo husband to continue

CMFR/Philippines—A motion, the second filed by Jose Miguel “Mike” Arroyo, husband of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, to dismiss the class action suit filed against him by 40 journalists and three media organizations in response to his numerous libel suits has been denied by a Philippine court. The journalists filed...

Media can be held liable for disobeying government, justice secretary warns

CMFR/Philippines—The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) has condemned an advisory issued by the secretary of justice warning chief media networks and press groups that they risk “criminal liabilities” if they disobey government orders “during emergencies.” The advisory warned media executives that their “networks or organizations may...

Nograles, the press freedom advocate?

A staunch Arroyo ally at the House of Representatives has filed a bill proposing for the abolition of the penalty of imprisonment for libel but increasing the fines for the offense. According to Rep. Prospero Nograles (Lakas, 1st Dist., Davao City), author of House Bill 2802 , the proposed...

Arrest warrants out for alleged masterminds of journalist killing

Judge upholds court’s jurisdiction over journalist murder case

Broadcaster jailed for libel

Journalists file suits to stop threats; court issues order against harassment

Broadcaster jailed for libel

Journalists seek court protection from government

Two suspects in journalist’s killing six years ago arraigned

Class suit against Arroyo husband to continue

Media can be held liable for disobeying government, justice secretary warns

Nograles, the press freedom advocate?

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