Articles by Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR)
Former president Estrada to file suit against newspaper
(CMFR/IFEX) – Former president Joseph Estrada has ordered his lawyers to file a P100 million (approx. US$1.9 million) libel suit against Military Intelligence Chief Col. Victor Corpus and the “Philippine Daily Inquirer” on Monday 13 August at the earliest. Allegations that Estrada and Senator Panfilo Lacson, former Philippine National Police chief and ally of Estrada, […]
Broadcaster survives ambush
(CMFR/IFEX) – On 14 June at around 9:00 a.m. (local time), four unidentified gunmen ambushed a local radio station commentator and his companions in Davao City, Davao del Sur, in Southern Mindanao, Philippines. Juan “Jun” Pala of dxLL Radyo Ukay of the University of Mindanao Broadcasting Network (UMBN) and two companions were ambushed while their […]
Suspect in radio journalist’s killing identified, charged
(CMFR/IFEX) – According to a 7 June 2001 report in the Manila-based newspaper “Philippine Star”, Zamboanga City police have identified and formally charged with murder the alleged killer of radio announcer Candelario Cayona Jr. of dxLL Radyo Ukay. Police said witnesses positively identified Adbulwarid Ada as the gunman. Ada, however, is still at large. The […]
Radio station bombed
(CMFR/IFEX) – A radio station in Bacolod City, Negros Occidental, in southern Philippines, was bombed in the early morning of 6 June 2001, injuring two people. The bomb exploded in the compound housing the station of dyHB Radyo Agong of Radio Mindanao Network (RMN), leaving a three-metre hole in an outside wall. Two bystanders were […]
Reporter’s killers arrested
(CMFR/IFEX) – On 23 May 2001, three alleged leaders of a splinter communist rebel group were arrested because they are suspected of being responsible for the death of radio correspondent Vincent Rodriguez during a river ambush in the northern province of Pampanga, Philippines last year. The arrests of the three alleged leaders of the Rebolusyonaryong […]
Suspects identified in broadcaster’s killing
(CMFR/IFEX) – On 30 May 2001 at around 6:00 a.m. local time, a radio announcer was shot several times near his home in Zamboanga City, Philippines. Candelario “Jhun” Cayona of DXLL Radyo Ukay was on his way to work by motorcycle when two unidentified assailants shot him. He died on the spot. Police claim they […]
CMFR condemns banning of a film
(CMFR/IFEX) – The following is a CMFR press release: CENSORSHIP VIOLATES THE RIGHT TO FREE EXPRESSION PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s power to prevent any film in the country from being exhibited derives from the archaic law creating the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB). PD 1986, signed into law in 1985, was a Marcos […]
Radio station bombed
(CMFR/IFEX) – On Monday 11 December 2000, at 3:30 a.m. (local time), the transmitter site of a church-run radio station in Cotabato City, Mindanao, in Southern Philippines, was bombed, wounding one of the station’s employees and damaging surrounding buildings and the station’s broadcast van. According to Metro Manila newspaper reports, Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) […]