Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR)

More than 100 groups and individuals worldwide call on Egyptian President el-Sisi to remove the unjust sentencing of three Al Jazeera journalists.

This week, a resolution on the importance of protecting human rights online was discussed at the 26th UN Human Rights Council Session in Geneva. Read the oral statement on this resolution led by ARTICLE 19 and supported by several IFEX members.

The private prosecutors in the Ampatuan Massacre trial have asked the Justice Secretary to reconsider the Philippines state prosecutors’ move to rest their case. They also allege that the funds for the trial have been misused.

Nilo Baculo Sr., a journalist whose request for a writ of amparo in 2008 was denied by the Court of the Appeals, was shot dead in Calapan City, Philippines.

A retired police officer shot at a radio blocktimer in late March. The suspect allegedly works as a security guard for the town mayor of San Jose, Philippines, the blocktimer had criticized in his radio program.

Samuel Oliverio, a Filipino radio blocktimer, was shot dead in public while on his motorcycle with his wife as they drove home on the morning of 23 May 2014.

FFFJ: “We are six months away from the 5th year of the [November 2009 Ampatuan] massacre. We have complained about the slowness of the wheels of justice. We want speedy justice.”

A Human Rights Watch report says members of the “Tagum Death Squad” (TDS) were responsible for the killing of Filipino radio blocktimer Rogelio “Tata” Butalid in December 2013.