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    RSF Calls for More Energetic Inquiry Into Murders of Philippine Journalists

    Reporters Without Borders called today for more police to investigate the killings of five journalists in the Philippines this year, including the latest victim, former radio presenter Rolando Anjo Julia, in the central province of Camarines Sur.
    “Until the motives for these crimes have been discovered and their authors punished, people will continue to doubt the [...]

    8/20/08 08:07 AM   Full Story
    Murders of Journalists Mock Government’s Claims

    The murder in broad daylight of Capiz broadcaster Martin Roxas on Thursday, August 7, mocks government’s claims that it has brought down the incidence of extrajudicial killings, particularly the murder of journalists.
    Roxas, 32, is the fourth journalist murdered this year and the 59th since President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo came to power in 2001.
    The brazenness with which [...]

    8/10/08 09:52 AM   Full Story
    CPJ ‘Gravely Concerned’ With Killing of Two Journalists Within a Week

    New York, August 7, 2008—Motorcycle-riding gunmen killed radio commentator Martin Roxas today in the second brutal shooting of a broadcaster in the Philippines this week, according to local and international news reports.
    Two men shot Roxas in the back as he drove his motorcycle from DYVR station in Roxas City, on the country’s central Panay island, [...]

    8/10/08 09:50 AM   Full Story
    Capiz Broadcaster, Also from RMN, Shot Dead

    CMFR/PHILIPPINES – A radio broadcaster was killed on 7 August 2008 by a gunman riding pillion on a motorcycle in Roxas City, Capiz. Capiz is approximately 411 kms southeast of Manila.
    Martin Roxas, program director of dyKR-Radio Mindanao Network (RMN) in Roxas, was shot in the nape. Roxas was himself on a motorcycle. He was pronounced [...]

    8/10/08 09:47 AM   Full Story
    Is Leila de Lima, New CHR Chair, for Real?

    Leila de Lima. (Photo by John Alliage Morales/Inquirer.net)

    For somebody who barely warmed her seat, the actions and statements by Leila de Lima, the new chair of the Commission on Human Rights, are impressive, probably unprecedented. Let’s just hope that this is not ningas-cogon, that de Lima is motivated by a genuine concern for human rights and not by the need to prove her mettle.

    5/28/08 10:17 AM   Full Story
    Journalists Set Press Briefing on Esperat Case

    The Freedom Fund for Filipino Journalists invites you to a press briefing on the latest developments in the prosecution of the alleged masterminds in the murder of Marlene Esperat (Criminal Case No. CBU-82237 also known as People of the Philippines vs. Osmeña Montañer et al.).
    The briefing will be held on Wednesday May 28, 2008 [...]

    5/27/08 09:40 AM   Full Story
    Group Launches Blog to Document Philippine Killings

    (Hong Kong, May 26, 2008) The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC)
    has launched today a campaign blog which documents cases involving
    various forms of arbitrary deprivation of life in the Philippines.
    The blog entitled ‘Slaughter of Innocents’ chronicles how
    a class of people have been systematically murdered on an almost daily
    basis. The blog may be accessed at:
    http://noprotection.blog.humanrights.asia
    Moon Jeong Ho, [...]

    5/27/08 09:17 AM   Full Story
    Death Squad-Style Murders Rise in GenSan

    Between February 4 and May 14, 2008, the Asian Legal Resource Center has been alerted to 17 murders in General Santos City and it is believed that this is not an exhaustive list. Seven of those murdered, including a 16-year-old boy, have been accused by the police investigators of having criminal records, being former detainees or persons involved in committing motorcycle robberies. In several other cases, the victims are persons illegally working as motorcycle taxis, who were killed when criminals stole their motorcycles.

    5/27/08 09:10 AM   Full Story
    Luis V. Teodoro: The Regime of Mockery

    A military man as peace adviser? A hawk for the dovish tasks of peace negotiations? It shouldn’t surprise anyone. The Arroyo regime of ironies and mockery has done as badly and even worse. It’s a national security regime disguised as a democracy, a reign of assassins cloaked in legal cloth. It’s a regime of mockery in which an Hermogenes Esperon for peace adviser makes as much sense as a Raul Gonzalez for justice secretary.

    5/26/08 10:00 AM   Full Story
    SC Urged to Intervene in Case of Murdered Journalist

    The Committee to Protect Journalists, based in New York, has written to Supreme Court chief justice Reynato Puno expressing its “grave concern” about the recent ruling of a Cebu Court of Appeals to indefinitely suspend the murder trial of journalist Marlene Garcia-Esperat.

    5/24/08 11:25 AM   Full Story
    Fr. Shay Cullen: The Assassins Repent and Speak Out

    By Fr. Shay Cullen
    It’s good to know that there are idealistic and well-meaning military officers ready to oppose corruption and speak the truth. Some wrongly took up arms to oppose the government corruption last year and were conditionally pardoned recently by the President. Other military officers of conscience in the Armed Forces of the Philippines [...]

    5/24/08 11:15 AM   Full Story
    Remembering Rey

    The military may have cut off his head and mangled his face and body. But Rey Cayago’s face and name could never be forgotten by his colleagues, his family, and the migrants and their families whom he had helped.
    BY EMILY VITAL
    Bulatlat
    Vol. VIII, No. 15, May 18-24, 2008
    There is a face to the growing number [...]

    5/18/08 08:15 AM   Full Story
    Satur Slams Arroyo for Killing of Davao Peasant Leader

    House Deputy Minority Leader and Bayan Muna party-list Rep. Satur C. Ocampo today condemned the killing of an official of the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas on Thursday in Davao City and blamed it on President Macapagal-Arroyo’s order to carry on counter-insurgency program Oplan Bantay Laya 2 that includes extra-judicial killings.
    The KMP identified the victim as [...]

    5/15/08 03:22 PM   Full Story
    Leader of Farmers’ Group Shot Dead in Davao City

    BREAKING NEWS | Celso Pojas was the secretary-general of the Farmers’ Association of Davao City and spokesman of the KMP in Davao.

    Pojas during a press conference in October last year. The words on his hat reads “Land, not bullet.” (davaotoday.com file photo by Barry Ohaylan)

    Related story: Satur Slams Arroyo for Killing of Davao Peasant Leader

    5/15/08 03:00 PM   Full Story
    Journalists Mark Press Freedom Day at Plaridel Shrine

    Journalists from Metro Manila and other parts of Luzon observed World Press Freedom Day today, May 3, at the shrine of Marcelo del Pilar, the national hero and revolutionary propagandist, in Bulacan. They also said a prayer for the Filipino journalists murdered over the years. (Photos by Carlos Conde/pinoypress.net)
    Jose Torres Jr. (left), [...]

    5/03/08 03:25 PM   Full Story
    Impunity Inhibits Journalism in the Philippines

    By JOEL SIMON and SHEILA CORONEL | Committee to Protect Journalists | The nearly perfect record of impunity in the Philippines has had a devastating impact on the free flow of information and has inhibited coverage of human rights and corruption issues in the communities affected by violence.

    4/30/08 11:06 AM   Full Story
    UN Rights Body Tells Philippines to ‘Completely Eliminate’ Torture

    Among the recommendations put forth at the UNHRC’s review of human rights in the Philippines is the intensification of efforts to investigate, prosecute and punish the perpetrators of extrajudicial killings.

    4/28/08 10:37 AM   Full Story
    Cavite Columnist Murdered in Pasig

    gmanews.tv: A newspaper columnist was gunned down Monday night, making him the latest casualty of attacks against journalists in the country.

    4/08/08 12:28 PM   Full Story
    Ermita as Head of HR Committee to UN — What an Insult, Says NDF

    The chairman of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines
    (NDFP) Human Rights Monitoring Committee Fidel V. Agcaoili today
    expressed outrage over the appointment of Executive Secretary Eduardo
    Ermita as head of the GRP 44-team delegation to the United Nations
    Human Rights Council (UNHRC) Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on April
    11.
    Agcaoili said that Ermita’s record as the US pointguard and [...]

    4/08/08 12:13 PM   Full Story
    Japan Group Releases Report on Killings in Philippines

    Report on Extrajudicial Killings and Enforced Disappearances in the Philippines
    Fact Finding Mission of Human Rights Now to Philippines
    Human Rights Now
    April 2008
    Summary
    In the Philippines, hundreds of social activists and human rights defenders have been unlawfully killed as well as subjected to enforced disappearances since [...]

    4/08/08 12:02 PM   Full Story

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THE NEWS IN PICTURES

Free at Last. The so-called Tagaytay 5 -- Aris Sarmiento, Axel Pinpin, Riel Custodio, Michael Masayes and Rico Ybañez -- shown here inside their prison cell during their incarceration, were freed yesterday. “The dismissal of trumped-up charges and release of Tagaytay 5 is a victory for human rights,” said Ruth Cervantes, Karapatan's public information officer. (Photo: freetagaytay5.net)

Displaced. Residents of North Cotabato have been the ones badly affected by the military offensives launched against the Moro Islamic Liberation Front. "As the government continues to indiscriminately drop bombs on Moro and Christian villages in Aleosan and Pikit, more and more civilians are displaced," said Kawagib, a Moro human-rights group.(Photo: Suara Bangsamoro/arkibongbayan.org)

In One Roof. Villagers who fled their homes after the clashes last week between government troops and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front in the south brought every human life with them, including their farm animals. They now live under one roof at an evacuation center in Pikit, North Cotabato. (Photo: Bong Sarmiento / Philippine Human Rights Reporting Project)

Emergency. A scene from "Ambulancia," a short film that tells of a painful twist in an ambulance driver's belief that a dying patient can be saved by running over stray animals on the streets. The award-winning film will be screened at the so-called "Woodstock of short films" in Germany. Richard Legaspi directed the film and it stars Alan Paule and Nor Domingo. (Contributed photo)

Sendoff. The Philippine Army dispatched today, Aug. 10, the 68th Infantry Battalion to Maguindanao. This battalion, together with the 46th Infantry Battalion from Samar, will augment the troops in Central Mindanao for the security operations that will be conducted to ensure peaceful elections in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao tomorrow. (Photo: Philippine Army)

Killings Denounced. Mindanao journalists gathered in General Santos City on Friday to denounce the recent attacks on their colleagues. On Monday, Dennis Cuesta, a Radio Mindanao Network commentator in General Santos, was shot and is fighting for his life. On Thursday, another RMN broadcaster, Martin Roxas of Capiz City, was shot dead. (Photo by Barry Ohaylan/davaotoday.com)

If This Wall Could Talk. With the pleasant scenery as a backdrop (and a constant reminder, perhaps, of a life they could have had), this poor family try to survive by actually living by the sidewalk outside the Chinese school in Davao City. (Photo by Barry Ohaylan/davaotoday.com)

Undaunted. Activists from Anakbayan scuffle with the police as the Chevrolet Suburban carrying President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo passes by the junction before the newly built Bankerohan bridge in Davao City last week. The president was in the city for the declaration of the merger of Lakas-CMD and Kampi parties. (Photo by Barry Ohaylan/davaotoday.com)

Freedom Denied. Lex Adonis, a former broadcaster of Bombo Radyo in Davao City, inside the Davao Penal Colony, where he was jailed after House Speaker Prospero Nograles sued him for libel over a story involving the Davao congressman's alleged sexual relations with a woman other than his wife. Despite a court order, Adonis remains in jail. (File photo by davaotoday.com)

Tribute to Ka Bel. Activists, artists, friends and supporters troop to the Philippine Independent Church on Taft Avenue Monday night to honor AnakPawis Rep. Crispin Beltran, who died last week. Beltran will be buried in Bulacan today, after a ceremony honoring him at the House of Representatives, where he served for several terms as party-list congressman. (Photo by Ayi Muallam/pinoypress.net)

Rare Sight. Moro women students of a madrasah play volleyball during a break in barangay Ugalingan, Carmen, North Cotabato, last week. While Filipina Moros are considered relatively open in their lifestyle compared to Muslim women in other countries, scenes like this are not very common in Moro areas in Mindanao. (Photo by Keith Bacongco/AKP Images)

Ka Bel's Fight. An activist mourns the death of AnakPawis Rep. Crispin "Ka Bel" Beltran, who died Tuesday. Ka Bel's remains lie in state at the IFI Cathedral in Manila. His colleagues, family and friends have lined up a series of tributes. Click here for the schedules, as well as statements and poems honoring Ka Bel. (Photo by courtesy of arkibongbayan)

Displaced. Lumad families from Compostela and Monkayo towns, in Compostela Valley Province, seek refuge in Davao City after being displaced by intense counter-insurgency operations by the military in their communities this month. The 210 evacuees, of which 83 are children, are now staying inside a gym. The number of evacuees is expected to rise, according to NGOs. (Photo by Barry Ohaylan)

Displaced. Lumad families from Compostela and Monkayo towns, in Compostela Valley Province, seek refuge in Davao City after being displaced by intense counter-insurgency operations by the military in their communities this month. The 210 evacuees, of which 83 are children, are now staying inside a gym. The number of evacuees is expected to rise, according to NGOs. (Photo by Barry Ohaylan)
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OTHER STORIES | August 30, 2008
US Anti-Tobacco Group Hails Philip Morris’s Withdrawal from Eraserheads Concert 11:24 am
‘Disarm, Dismantle Ilaga Vigilantes Now,’ Solon Dares Arroyo 06:54 pm
Health Advocates Hail Pullout of Philip Morris from Eraserheads Concert 04:23 pm
Moro Youth Leaders Push for Peace and Justice 08:15 am
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