Articles by Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR)
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) […]
French journalists escape from Abu Sayyaf captors
(CMFR/IFEX) – Two journalists from France 2 television, held hostage since 9 July 2000, were brought to a military camp in Jolo, Sulu, in the Southern Philippines, early in the morning (6:30 a.m. local time) on Wednesday 20 September, after escaping from their Abu Sayyaf captors. Jean-Jacques Le Garrec and Roland Madura took the opportunity […]
Radio station bombed
(CMFR/IFEX) – The DXWO radio station was bombed on the night of Wednesday 13 September 2000, in Pagadian City, in North Cotabato, a province in Southern Philippines. Pagadian Police Chief Maj. Dionisio Perdiguez and three witnesses said they saw two men leaving a black bag, presumably containing the improvised bomb, shortly before the explosion. The […]
Two Filipino journalists released
(CMFR/IFEX) – Two Filipino journalists from ABS-CBN, one of the largest radio-TV companies in the Philippines, were released on Sunday 30 July 2000, five days after being abducted in Patikul town in Jolo, Sulu, southern Philippines. Cameraman Val Cuenca and his wife, researcher Maan Macapagal, were released to the custody of the vice governor of […]
Radio commentator’s car ambushed; another journalist receives death threats
(CMFR/IFEX) – An armed group ambushed the car of a radio commentator with the GV-FM radio station in Angeles City (about 100 kilometers from Manila), Pampanga province, on the morning of 26 June 2000. Three people were killed and two others were injured in the attack. Roy David, a former mayor of the town of […]
Pampanga correspondent killed
(CMFR/IFEX) – On 23 May 2000, Vincent Rodriguez, a Pampanga correspondent with the Manila-based DZMM radio station, was killed during an ambush on Mayor Catalina Bagasina. He is the first Pampanga-based journalist to be killed during coverage. Rodriguez was part of a seven-boat convoy escorting President Joseph Estrada’s son Jojo Osorio Ejercito on a tour […]
Mindanao publisher’s death not linked to his newspaper business
(CMFR/IFEX) – According to a police investigation, the 14 May 2000 murder of William Yap Yu was not related to his being the publisher of the “Pagadian City Star”. Police suspect that Yu, a successful businessman, was killed because of a real estate business deal. Yu was also involved in other business ventures apart from […]