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Presidential spouse Mike Arroyo drops all libel suits

Presidential spouse Jose Miguel “Mike” Arroyo ordered his lawyers to withdraw all the libel suits he had filed against Filipino journalists as a “gesture of peace” on 3 May 2007. Read by press secretary Ignacio Bunye in a media briefing in Malacañang, Arroyo’s announcement coincided with the celebration of...

CMFR releases primer for World Press Freedom Day

The media advocacy and press freedom group Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) has released Philippine Press Freedom Primer: Quick Answers to Your Questions in commemoration of May 3 World Press Freedom Day. The primer is meant to provide those unfamiliar with the state of press freedom in...

Newspaper editors and publisher post bail for libel

The publisher, along with seven editors of the Philippine Daily Inquirer, one of the Philippines’ major dailies, was detained for an hour at a Manila Police Station on 20 March 2007 after posting a libel bond of P50,000 (approx. $1,000). A Manila court issued had issued warrants for their...

Five journalists post bail; editor released after a night in jail

Four editors, including one who was arrested and spent a night in a police station, and a staff writer of a Philippine online magazine, posted P10, 500 ($210) bail bond each at the Pasig city police station on 8 March 2007 over a P100 million ($20,000) libel suit filed...

Solon prevented from speaking to the media

CMFR/Philippines—Members of the press were prevented from interviewing detained Bayan Muna (Nation First) Representative Satur Ocampo by his police custodians, who claimed that media interviews would be risky for Ocampo, Inquirer.net reported on 21 March 2007. Ocampo and the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) have protested...

Newspaper editors and publisher detained, post bail for libel

CMFR/Philippines—The publisher, along with seven editors of the Philippine Daily Inquirer, one of the Philippines’ major dailies, was detained for an hour at a Manila Police Station on 20 March 2007 after posting a libel bond of P50,000 (approx. $1,000). A Manila court issued had issued warrants for their...

Five journalists post bail; editor released after a night in jail

CMFR/Philippines—Three editors, including one who was arrested and spent a night in a police station, a staff writer, and a former managing editor of a Philippine online magazine, posted P10, 500 ($210) bail bond each at the Pasig city police station on 8 March 2007 over a P100 million...

President’s husband files another libel charge (UPDATED)

Jose Miguel “Mike” Arroyo, husband of Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo sued seven staff members of the Manila-based broadsheet Philippine Daily Inquirer, including the publisher and several editors, and demanded P11 million ($220, 000) in damages last 20 February 2007. Libel is a criminal offense in the Philippines. The...

Another journalist shot dead in Mindanao

CMFR/Philippines—The associate publisher of Lightning Courier, a news weekly in Mindanao, was shot dead by a lone gunman just outside his house in Sultan Kudarat, Shariff Kabunsuan, on the early morning of 19 February 2007. Mindanao, a predominantly Muslim area, is the second largest and southernmost island of the...

President’s husband files another libel charge

CMFR/Philippines—Jose Miguel “Mike” Arroyo, husband of Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo sued seven staff members of the Manila-based broadsheet Philippine Daily Inquirer, including the publisher and several editors, and demanded P11 million ($220, 000) in damages last 20 February 2007. Libel is a criminal offense in the Philippines. The...

Presidential spouse Mike Arroyo drops all libel suits

CMFR releases primer for World Press Freedom Day

Newspaper editors and publisher post bail for libel

Five journalists post bail; editor released after a night in jail

Solon prevented from speaking to the media

Newspaper editors and publisher detained, post bail for libel

Five journalists post bail; editor released after a night in jail

President’s husband files another libel charge (UPDATED)

Another journalist shot dead in Mindanao

President’s husband files another libel charge

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