Slain journalist’s widow faces contempt charges

A widow of an Ampatuan (Maguindanao) massacre victim and a director of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) are facing possible contempt charges for publicly criticizing Court of Appeals (CA) justices before whom a petition connected to the Ampatuan multiple murder case is pending.

The CA of Manila ordered last 12 April 2011 Rowena Paraan and Monette Salaysay to explain in writing their 2 March 2011 statements allegedly insinuating bias and corruption in the appellate court. Paraan is the secretary-general of NUJP, while Salaysay is the widow of Napoleon Salaysay, one of the 32 journalists and media workers killed in the 23 November 2009 massacre in Ampatuan, Maguindanao in which 58 people were killed.

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