Killing of journalists Archives | CMFR

  • This Week in Media (December 6 to 10, 2021)

    DURING THE WEEK of International Human Rights Day, on December 10, the Supreme Court ruled en banc on the highly problematic Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) enacted by Congress more than... Read more

  • Radio Blocktimer Killed in Butuan City

    CMFR/PHILIPPINES – A radio blocktimer was killed in Butuan City on 20 April 2019. Butuan City is 799 kilometers south of Manila. “Blocktiming” is a Philippine practice in which... Read more

  • 49 more suspects charged in Ampatuan Massacre

    FORTY-NINE more individuals including local government officials and police officers were charged before the provincial prosecutor of Maguindanao last January 7, 2015 for the planning, execution and cover-up of... Read more

  • Ending impunity is a state responsibility

    "BIZARRE" WAS how an American journalist, who’s in the Philippines to write an article on the killing of journalists, described what he’s finding out Read more

  • Journalist killed in Cambodia over illegal logging

    CMFR/Philippines – A journalist in the Kratie province of Cambodia was shot dead on 12 October 2014 while he was documenting illegal logging, according to the Cambodian Center for... Read more

  • International Crisis

    Egyptian court convicts journalists for covering protests An Egyptian court sentenced on 23 June 2014 three Al Jazeera journalists–Australian Peter Geste, Cairo bureau chief Canadian-Egyptian Mohamad Fahmy and producer... Read more

  • No illusions

    No one should be under the illusion that every journalist killed for what he or she reported or commented on was fighting for freedom, for principle, for public interest,... Read more

  • Lives’ labors lost (Updated)

    The claim that the loss of media credibility is worse than the killing of journalists is an exaggeration. There is no problem as bad as, and certainly no problem... Read more

  • International Crisis

    Martial law in Thailand targets media The military in Thailand has issued orders limiting the content of news media outlets, closed down 14 television stations and an unspecified number... Read more

  • The press in Philippine society

    The protection the Constitution extends to press freedom is premised on the assumption that the press has a social duty to discharge to merit that protection. Indeed the Constitution... Read more



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