Maguindanao massacre Archives

STATEMENT: Conviction of accused in the court is a good sign; but it hardly ends impunity

A JUST verdict after the long trial of the accused in the Ampatuan Massacre is a welcome outcome, but it hardly signals the end of the pattern of impunity... Read more

PH still 5th in CPJ 2018 Global Impunity Index

NEW YORK-BASED press freedom watchdog Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has released its 2018 Global Impunity Index which ranks states with the worst records of prosecuting the killers of... Read more

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... Read more

Supreme Court affirms denial of live coverage of Ampatuan trial

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – THE SUPREME COURT of the Philippines affirmed its 23 October 2012 decision which disallowed live media broadcast of the hearings being conducted by Branch 221 of the... 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

Court grants bail petition of accused in 2009 Massacre   (UPDATED)

A member of the Ampatuan clan allegedly involved in the Nov. 23 2009 Maguindanao Massacre may be temporarily released after the Quezon City trial court hearing the case approved... Read more

Ending impunity is a state responsibility

By Luis V. Teodoro “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, among them: Read more

STORIFY: Million Candles Campaign

International concern, local indifference

IN A disturbing—and irony-ridden—demonstration of official hostility to the Constitutional guarantee of press freedom, the Philippine National Police (PNP) has prevented journalists from covering the trial of the alleged... Read more

A million candles

The candle lighting ceremony at the EDSA Shrine is a quiet memorial. CMFR will lead the lighting of A Million Candles on November 23, 2014 (Sunday), at 6:00 p.m.... Read more