Rolando Ureta Archives | CMFR

• Censorship by the Gun

  First published in the Philippine Daily Inquirer’s Talk of the Town on July 10, 2016   IN RESPONSE to a question raised during one of his press conferences in... Read more

• Court downgrades charge from murder to homicide in radio broadcaster’s killing

  CMFR/Philippines – A Court in Cebu City on 16 January 2014 convicted a man of homicide in the case of a radio broadcaster killed 13 years ago in the... 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

• 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

• High Court grants petition for transfer of venue of the trials of suspects in the killing of two journalists

  CMFR/PHILIPPINES – The Philippine Supreme Court granted on 18 March 2008 a petition by the Freedom Fund for Filipino Journalists (FFFJ) and the National Union of Journalists of the... Read more

• Two suspects in journalist’s killing six years ago arraigned

  CMFR/Philippines—Two suspects in the killing of a broadcast journalist were arraigned on 10 January 2008, more than half a decade after the murder. Rolando Ureta, then 30, was killed... Read more