Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR)

Radio broadcaster Rommel Fenix, a known critic of a Filipino governor, received threatening texts from someone who he speculates might be an ally of the governor.

A publisher-editor has been detained at a police camp in the Philippines, following an indirect contempt of court order for an article which allegedly degraded the court and brought it into disrepute.

Two journalists in Cotabatao, Philippines received a text message from an unknown sender alleging a politician’s plot to kill another journalist, Joy Francisco.

Thirty IFEX members protested the sentencing of bloggers, citizen journalists and rights activists, jailed for up to 13 years in the biggest ever trial of pro-democracy activists in Vietnam.

A city councillor and radio blocktimer who was known for his criticisms of a congresswoman, other media practitioners and the police, was gunned down in an apparent ambush in the Philippines.

The Supreme Court upheld the indictment of former Mindanao governor Zaldy Ampatuan and Anwar Ampatuan Sr. as two of the accused in connection with the 2009 Ampatuan Massacre.

As the press was commemorating the third year of the Ampatuan Massacre, an appeals court was granting an alleged mastermind’s petition to nullify his reinvestigation in connection with the killing of Filipino broadcaster Gerardo Ortega.

On the third anniversary of the Ampatuan Massacre in the Philippines, there is as yet no clear indication that the trial of the alleged planners and perpetrators will be concluded within a reasonable amount of time – or that it will be concluded credibly.