Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR)

The message posted on Jose Allan Bartolo’s account read, “Son of a bitch! You better watch your back. I can easily have you killed.”

Center for Media Freedom & Responsibility /////////////////////////////////////////// Local electric cooperative exec files libel charges against correspondent Posted: 22 May 2012 10:06 PM PDT http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/cmfr/~3/w_WeojJiLM0/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email CMFR/PHILIPINES –The Masbate City Prosecutor’s Office has recommended the filing of libel charges against a journalist accused of maligning an official of the provincial electrical cooperative. The journalist claimed he has […]

UPDATE: The president of IFEX member Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR), Nabeel Rajab, was re-arrested and sentenced to three years in prison on 16 August. Many other human rights defenders remain in prison, including BCHR’s founder Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja, and his daughter, Zainab Al-Khawaja.

Lito Labra has been receiving death threats since he started discussing illegal mining and logging issues on his radio program in early 2012.

This is the first threat Michael James Licuanan has received since an attempt on his life in November 2011.

Two unidentified gunmen on a motorcycle shot dead Rommel Palma, a radio station employee who also did weather and other reports.

Nelson Libaton and his companion, reporter Eldon Cruz, were on their way home from an interview when a man riding on a motorcycle with two other unidentified men shot him in the back.

Police have yet to identify suspects in the killing of columnist Michael Calanasan in San Pablo City, Laguna.