Ampatuan Trial Watch Archives

Court Denies Unsay Ampatuan’s Bail Petitions

SEVEN YEARS after the trial began, the Quezon City Regional Trial Court finally resolved to deny last May 30 the bail petitions filed by the main accused in the... Read more

QC court denies massacre suspect’s bail petitions

The Quezon City court hearing the murder cases against the alleged perpetrators of the November 23, 2009 Ampatuan (Maguindanao) Massacre denied the petitions for bail of another primary suspect. Read more

Ampatuan Massacre trial updateJustice delayed

THE TRIAL of the accused killers and masterminds of the Ampatuan Massacre continued in 2012—but with hardly the kind of progress that press freedom groups and the families... Read more

A tale of two massacres (Updated)

EXACTLY THREE years ago today a convoy was hijacked in a town in Maguindanao province and forced off the road to a pre-dug mass grave about two kilometers away.... Read more

The Supreme Court October 23 resolution: Restricting already restricted coverage

Although the Supreme Court said it had merely “modified” the guidelines on the live coverage of the Ampatuan Massacre trial, its October 23, 2012 En Banc Resolution mandating “Guidelines... Read more

PJR Reports September – October 2011

Editor’s Note: FOCUS THE POSSIBILITY that some of the journalists who have been killed in this country since 1986 might not have been ethical, or even corrupt, isn’t exactly... Read more

The Long Road to Justice

By Mark Merueñas AS SOON as you enter the high-walled compound of the Quezon City Jail Annex in Taguig City where the Ampatuan multiple murder case is being heard,... Read more

CMFR Philippine Press Freedom Report 2010 released

THE VICTORY of Benigno Simeon Aquino III in the 2010 presidential elections was widely expected to usher in a new era of governance. Aquino was also perceived as committed... Read more

The Real Obscenity

Statement of the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility on the Agra order to drop the multiple murder charges against Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) Governor Zaldy Ampatuan... Read more

November 23 massacre update: Judge to decide on inhibition

Pending the resolution of the Recusation (motion to inhibit) filed by the defense, a Philippine local court indefinitely suspended last 24 February 2010 the hearing on the petition for... Read more