2005 alerts Archives | CMFR

• Two journalists shot down

  In just a span of 60 hours, two journalists were gunned down in separate incidents in southern Luzon over the weekend. Robert Ramos, tabloid reporter, and Ricardo Uy, a... Read more

• Cebu journalists face libel suit

  Five Cebu-based journalists are facing libel charges for publishing stories implicating a municipal mayor as the mastermind of the P94-million bank robbery in Bogo, northern part of Cebu. Sun.Star... Read more

• Photojournalist held by military

  After mistaking him for a rebel, a photojournalist working for a national daily was held by local police and military last 4 October in Tarlac City, around 130 kilometers... Read more

• Phil Star correspondent receives threat

  Three allegedly drug-crazed men hurled stones and tried to barge into the houseof a provincial journalist working for a national daily, just past midnightlast 11 August in Butuan City,... Read more

• Newsbreak editor gets death threat

  It would seen that threats against journalists and freedom of expression are no longer confined to the provinces but has made its way to the capital. It is indeed... Read more

• Radio station ordered closed for maligning local official

  A mayor in a southern Philippine city ordered the closure of a local radio station, which had been criticizing him on-air. Mayor Jose Galario Jr. of Valencia City, Bukidnon,... Read more

• Local journalist harassed, threatened after exposing governor’s anomalies

  A correspondent based in Batangas, south of Manila, has been living in danger for more than three weeks now after her articles exposing corruption in the province angered Governor... Read more

• Local editor jailed for contempt

  An editor of a local paper in Naga City, southeast of Manila, was sent to prison for indirect contempt last July 20. Jose Perez, editor-in-chief of the weekly Bicol... Read more