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Targeting Journalists

Statement of the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) on the inclusion of journalist Carlos Conde in the Order of Battle of the Armed Forces of the PhilippinesFor... Read more

Journalist included in military “order of battle”

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – The Philippine Army in southern Mindanao allegedly included a journalist and two media organizations in a 2007 watchlist of persons and organizations it claims to be connected... Read more

Community journalist, family unhurt in shooting attack

CMFR/PHILIPPINES—A journalist from Bangued was unharmed after gunmen fired at her family’s house last 14 May 2009. Bangued is the capital of Abra, a province approximately 408 kms northwest... Read more

Police arrests accused in 2005 murder of journalist

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – Local police arrested one of the alleged gunmen in the 2005 killing of journalist Philip Agustin on 13 May 2009 in Pampanga, a province approximately 81 kms... Read more

An update on and interpretation of the latest developments in People vs. Montañer and Sabay (The Marlene Esperat media murder case)

By the Freedom Fund for Filipino Journalists (FFFJ) (For more information, contact FFFJ’s legal counsel Prima Jesusa Quinsayas at this number: 5247686 loc. 228.) AFTER HAVING their Motion to... Read more

Journalist accused of wiretapping posts bail

CMFR/PHILIPPINES—A Manila-based journalist posted bail on 8 May 2009 after a Philippine local court issued an arrest warrant in connection with a wiretapping complaint filed by a government official... Read more

Absurd and Dangerous

Below is a statement of the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) on the Anti-Wiretapping suit against Cecilia “Cheche” Lazaro. For information, please contact CMFR at the following... Read more

A Philippine court convicts one journalist’s killer; another acquits a suspect in a separate case

CMFR/PHILIPPINES—Two local courts recently decided two separate cases of work-related killing of broadcasters in Region XI (Davao Region). Eight out of the 78 work-related killing of journalists/media practitioners since... Read more

New arrest warrant out for suspects in slay of journalist

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – A Philippine local court issued a new arrest warrant for the suspects, one of them a police officer, in the 2008 killing of a radio broadcaster in... Read more

Judge denies accused’s motion to quash

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – A local Philippine court denied on 7 April 2009 the motion to dismiss the murder charges against the alleged masterminds in the 2005 killing of Sultan Kudarat... Read more