May 2008 alerts Archives - CMFR

• Media groups ask Supreme Court to issue habeas corpus for jailed broadcaster

  CMFR/Philippines – Last 30 May 2008, media groups filed a petition for habeas corpus before the Philippine Supreme Court asking for the release of jailed radio commentator Alexander “Alex”... Read more

• Jail official refuses to release broadcaster despite court order

  CMFR/PHILIPPINES – A jail official refused on 26 May 2008 to release a radio commentator jailed for libel since last year despite a court order. The warden of the... Read more

• Case against Esperat masterminds stalled as court grants injunction

  CMFR/Philippines–The Cebu Court of Appeals issued on 14 May 2008 a writ of preliminary injunction prohibiting the Cebu City Regional Trial Court (RTC) from proceeding with the case against... Read more

• Correspondents threatened by local government official

  CMFR/Philippines—Two provincial correspondents of a national broadsheet said they were indirectly threatened with harm by a local government official in Alfonso Lista, Ifugao on 10 May 2008. Ifugao is... Read more

• Hearing on murder of journalist seven years ago begins

  CMFR/Philippines—The trial of the suspect in the killing of a radio journalist in 2001 began 9 May 2008 in Cebu City, Cebu with the journalist’s widow stating under direct... Read more