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CMFR Philippines Alert: Reporters receives death threat after exposing election anomalies

A television and a radio reporter for the ABS-CBN network received death threats in Lanao del Norte, a province located in the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), after reporting election irregularities in the province. ARMM is in Mindanao, the second largest and southernmost island of the Philippines. ABS-CBN...

A statement from journalists who have filed a class suit against the president’s husband, Mike Arroyo

In view of Jose Miguel Arroyo’s announcement that he intends to withdraw all the libel suits he has brought against journalists (46 in all), the question is raised whether we might respond by withdrawing our own class suit against him. As it happens, this is not a case of...

World Press Freedom Day 2007 Under Attack

World Press Freedom Day 2007 Under Attack By Hector Bryant L. Macale and Jose Bimbo F. Santos TO BE a journalist these days has become more difficult and dangerous. Press freedom throughout the world is still under threat this year, with many journalists and media practitioners getting sued, threatened,...

The Father and Sons Yuyitung

The Father and Sons Yuyitung By Yvonne T. Chua IN THE summer of 1942, Yu Yi Tung paid the ultimate price for press freedom. Yu Yi Tung had closed down his Chinese-language newspaper, the Chinese Commercial News (CCN), on New Year’s Eve as Japanese forces set out to occupy...

Resistance is the best defense against arbitrary power

Statement of the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility on Mike Arroyo’s withdrawal of his libel suits against 46 journalistsWorld Press Freedom Day, May 3, 2007 The decision of presidential spouse Jose Miguel “Mike” Arroyo to withdraw the 11 libel suits he had filed against 46 journalists is a...

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...