Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR)

The police are looking at political and professional angles to establish the motive in the killing of radio correspondent Miguelito Rueras who was shot dead inside his own store in Masbate province, Philippines.

Fernan Angeles, a Manila-based journalist who survived a slay-attempt in March 2012, is still under threat; he receiving a threatening phone call and a police officer allegedly involved in the attempt on his life has been seen near his residence.

The governor-elect of the province of Cotabato, Philippines barged into a radio station and confronted a journalist about election-related reports published in the latter’s paper a few days before the incident.

An online news site in Subic, Philippines received threatening messages from a person posing as a member of the police’s Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team.

A politician and his aides mauled and attempted to shoot members of a television crew covering an alleged vote-buying incident on the eve of the Philippine midterm elections.

A Filipino radio blocktimer received threats after an outgoing party-list representative running for mayor barged into his radio booth and verbally attacked him.

IFEX members called on Philippines authorities to reprimand a local police chief who arrested a radio broadcaster without a warrant after he talked about police incompetence on the air.

The family of broadcaster and environmentalist Gerardo “Gerry” Ortega welcomed the conviction of his killer by a Philippines court, but lamented the fact that the alleged masterminds, a former provincial governor and his mayor brother, remain at large.