We will not surrender our freedomsToday, Independence Day, we renew our pledge to serve the people, to continue speaking truth to power, and to guard and defend freedom of the press and of expression from all threats.Read More Covering the PandemicRead more Covering the CoViD-19 Pandemic Journalists file suits to stop threats; court issues order against harassment CMFR/PhilippinesâOver 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/PhilippinesâA 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 âLitoâ Ucab, a freelance radio commentator in Cagayan de Oro, is now behind bars in the Butuan... Journalists seek court protection from government CMFR/PhilippinesâEleven 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 journalistâs killing six years ago arraigned CMFR/PhilippinesâTwo 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/PhilippinesâA 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/PhilippinesâThe 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 âcriminal liabilitiesâ if they disobey government orders âduring emergencies.â The advisory warned media executives that their ânetworks or organizations may... PRESS ADVISORY FOR: News and current affairs head/editor FROM: Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility/ Freedom Fund for Filipino Journalists SUBJECT: Hearing on the murder against SPO4 Apolonio Medrano and Basilio Yadao for the 2004 killing of Ilocos broadcast journalist Roger Mariano DATES: 3, 10 and 18 October 2007 (8:30 a.m.)... Back to the Past: A timeline of press freedom A timeline of press freedom Back to the Past By Jose Bimbo F. Santos and Melanie Y. Pinlac IN TODAYâS fast-moving world, 35 years can be a very short time. It was not long ago that Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law and put a stop to freedom of the... A Summit on âSalvagingsâ and Abductions A pro-active Supreme Court leads a conference on extrajudicial killings A Summit on âSalvagingsâ and Abductions By Jose Bimbo F. Santos NO MORE than 10 percent of the 70 cases of journalists killed in the line of duty since 1986 have resulted in a conviction. Out of the 33... 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... « Previous1…3738394041…47Next »
