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 Militia Leader Threatens to Ambush Journalists in Mindanao CMFR/ PHILIPPINES – A leader of an anti-communist militia group implicated in the killing of several members of an indigenous people's community in Mindanao allegedly threatened to ambush Mindanao-based journalists who would cover the 47th anniversary of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) on December 26. TV Broadcaster Threatened CMFR/Philippines – A television news broadcaster in Pampanga received a death threat through text messages last November 11, 2015. Men in Break-in Try Identified CMFR/ Philippines -- Two of the armed men who tried to break into Aksyon Radyo station in Iloilo City and took one of the station's close circuit television (CCTV) cameras on November 19 have been identified. Iloilo city is 600 kilometers south of Manila. Ending the Killing of Journalists: State Action Urgently Needed Statement of the Freedom Fund for Filipino Journalists The United Nations declared November 2 as International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists. However, press freedom advocates in the Philippines focus on November 23 to commemorate the 2009 Ampatuan Massacre in which 58 men and women including 32 journalists... Police officer mauls, arrests radio reporter CMFR/ Philippines – A senior police officer allegedly mauled and arrested a radio reporter on November 10 in a police station in Marikina City, Metro Manila. The police officer has been relieved from his post pending an investigation. Radio correspondent shot dead in QC; 150th killing of journalist since 1986 if work-related CMFR/ Philippines – Two days before the commemoration of the International Day to End Impunity on November 2, an unidentified assailant shot dead a radio correspondent in front of a fast food restaurant in Brgy. Kaligayahan, Quezon City, Metro Manila on October 31. Protesters interrogate Iloilo-based photojournalist CMFR/ Philippines – A group of protesters allegedly held and interrogated a photojournalist covering their protest along Iloilo Circumferential Road 1 on October 4, 2015. Local radio and TV owner-broadcaster charged with libel A FORMER Digos city mayor filed more than 225 counts of criminal libel against an owner and broadcaster of a local radio and television station in Digos City, Davao del Sur province. The radio and television stations were also ordered to cease operations on 16 September 2015 following a... STATEMENT: Toward Resolving the Ortega Case The deportation to the Philippines and subsequent arrest of the alleged masterminds in the 2011 killing of broadcaster and environmental advocate Gerardo Ortega have awakened hopes that the suspected brains behind the killing of a journalist would be prosecuted. If government acts promptly, the recent arrest of... Alleged masterminds in Palawan broadcaster slay arrested in Thailand The two Alleged masterminds in the killing of Palawan broadcaster Gerry Ortega in 2011 were arrested in Thailand Sunday, September 20. « Previous12345…47Next »
