Posts Tagged ‘philippines’
May 10th, 2012
A radio journalist was
murdered in the
Philippines on Tuesday. Nestor Libaton, a news reporter for Catholic-run radio station dxHM in Mati City, was shot several times by men on a motorbike. The journalist was on the back of a motorbike being driven by his co-anchor, Eldon Cruz, after the pair had conducted an interview in a nearby city. The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) believe the incident occurred as a result of the journalists work. Libaton is the
fourth journalist to be killed in the Philippines since the start of 2012.
March 12th, 2012
Gunmen
have shot and seriously injured a journalist in the
Philippines. Fernan Angeles, a reporter with The Daily Tribune, was beaten and shot six times by unidentified men near his home in Manila on Sunday night. Angeles, who is assigned to cover President Benigno Aquino III, remains in intensive care. Angeles’ wife speculated that her husband’s attackers were linked to a drug syndicate from their working-class community, who may believe the journalist had leaked information about the syndicate’s operation to authorities.
February 3rd, 2012
The United Nations Human Rights Committee have found that the defamation conviction of a
Philippines journalist violated the journalist’s
right to free expression. In the landmark ruling, the UN committee said that the prison sentence handed to journalist
Alexander Adonis of Bombo Radyo, following his reporting on an alleged affair between a Philippine congressman and a married woman, was “incompatible” with Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The UNHRC has given the Philippine government 180 days to provide “information about the measures taken to give effect to the Committee’s views”.
January 9th, 2012
A
Filipino journalist was
murdered on 5 January, local reports suggest he was chased down by unidentified gunmen on a motorcycle. Christopher Guarin, publisher and editor-in-chief of the daily newspaper Tatak News Nationwide,
died in front of his wife and two children. Guarin’s colleagues claim that the journalist received an
anonymous threat during his radio programme warning Guarin that he would be killed when leaving the station shortly before his murder.
October 20th, 2011
A radio commentator in the
Philippines was
shot dead on 14 October. Datu Roy Bagtikan Gallego was shot dead on the national highway in Sitio Mamprasanon, in Lianga town during an ambush. Gallego, who often criticised mining operations and spoke in defence of tribal rights was due to start a new slot on a radio program this week with 92.7
Smile FM San Francisco. Gallego’s death comes one week after the murder of fellow journalist
Johnson Pascual. Lianga Police have not yet identified any suspects or a motive for the murder.
October 10th, 2011
A newspaper editor
was shot on Friday while driving through the
Philippines‘ main island, Luzon. Johnson Pascual, editor-in-chief of local newspaper, Prime News, was shot by two men on a motorcycle in Isabela province, Northern Philippines on Friday morning. Following the shooting, where Pascual was hit in the
head and torso, the journalist lost control of his vehicle and drove it into a ravine, where he died. It is currently unclear whether Pascual’s murder was related to his work as a journalist.
September 5th, 2011
In what is
reportedly the first time that a
Philippine Supreme Court justice has filed a
libel case against anyone including a journalist, reporter Marites Danguilan Vitug was
forced to post P10,000 (145 GBP) bail on Friday on charges that she had
defamed Supreme Court Justice Presbitero Velasco in a recent book. In the book, Shadow of Doubt, Vitug quoted residents of the Marinduque constituency as saying the Supreme Court justice was active in inviting two local officials to run with his son as councillor and promising to underwrite campaign expenses.
August 25th, 2011
Two gunmen on a motorcycle
shot radio commentator Niel Jimena, 42, on Monday night near his home in the Negros Island town of E.B. Magalona,
Philippines. He was riding his own motorcycle when he was shot, and died of multiple gunshot wounds before arriving at a local hospital. The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines said in a statement that police have not determined a motive in the case or whether the killing was work-related. Jimena broadcast political commentary on DYRI-RMN Radio in nearby Iloilo City.
