Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR)

IFEX members call on the Prime Minister of Tonga to cease threats of suspension of journalist Viola Ulakai and respect his past commitment to press freedom in the country.

CMFR takes exception to President-elect Rodrigo Duterte’s recent statement that most of the journalists who have been killed in the Philippines for their work were slain because they’re corrupt.

While the police have said the killing of reporter Alex Balcoba might be business-related, they have not dismissed the possibility that it was because of his work.

A mayoral candidate has filed libel charges against several local journalists over a report on her supposed “swindling” of the residents of a barangay (village) in Surigao del Norte province, Philippines.

Free expression organisations join the Media Foundation for West Africa in calling on African regional body to pressure The Gambia to release journalist Alhagie Abdoulie Ceesay.

A breakdown of the events that are changing the free expression landscape in Asia and the Pacific.

Elvis Ordaniza is the first journalist killed in the Philippines in 2016. If proven work-related, his killing will be the 151st case of a journalist killed in the line of duty since 1986, and the 30th during Benigno Aquino III’s presidency.

A journalist was convicted of libel and another arrested in the Philippines on the same charge in less than two months. But two other libel cases against media workers were dismissed during the same period.