Reporters Without Borders/Reporters sans frontières
5 August 2008
PHILIPPINES
Radio talk show host in coma after being shot five times
Radio Mindanao Network talk show host Dennis Cuesta was in a coma today after being shot five times at close range yesterday while walking in a shopping mall in General Santos City on the southern island of Mindanao.
Cuesta’s show, “Straight to the Point,” is hard-hitting and controversial on sensitive subjects such as corruption and drug trafficking. Police are not ruling out the possibility that the shooting was linked to his work as a journalist.
Surgeons succeeded today in extracting a bullet lodged in his head. “If he survives this attack, he will be hemiplegic,” his doctor said.
Reporters Without Borders urges the authorities to identify and punish those responsible for the shooting, which comes just a month after the murder of a journalist in Quezon province.
“We urge the government to send a strong signal of its determination to protect the media by assigning additional resources to the Task Force in charge of investigating attacks on journalists,” the press freedom organisation said.
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