PHILIPPINES
MAY 18, 2005 Posted: June 15, 2005 Pablo Hernandez, Bulgar ATTACKED Hernandez, a self-described “hard-hitting’ crime columnist with the tabloid Bulgar (Expose), survived an apparent assassination attempt when he exchanged gunshots with two motorcycle-riding assailants just before dawn in the Valenzuela suburb of Manila. It was the second attack on Hernandez this year; he survived…
Journalist abducted and TV tower attacked
New York, May 18, 2005—The Committee to Protect Journalists is gravely concerned about the safety of reporter Som Sharma, who was abducted from his residence in the eastern district of Ilam late last week. The abduction is one of several serious attacks on the press in recent days by both Maoist rebels and the government.…
Imprisoned journalist Jiang Weiping in ill health
New York, May 17, 2005—The Committee to Protect Journalists is appalled by the recent deterioration in the health care and prison conditions provided to Jiang Weiping, an investigative journalist now serving his fifth year in jail. Prison authorities have barred Jiang from making phone calls during recent months and have denied him permission to read…
Journalists receive death threats as tensions rise
New York, May 12, 2005—Two journalists with the Sri Lankan press freedom organization Free Media Movement (FMM) received death threats on Tuesday at the group’s headquarters in the capital, Colombo. Several other journalists also said they are under threat in the wake of the abduction and murder of veteran Tamil journalist Dharmeratnam Sivaram late last…
Two journalists murdered; CPJ condemns mounting death toll
New York, NY, May 11, 2005- Last night the editor and publisher of a local community newspaper was shot and killed—the second murder of a journalist in the Philippines in less than one week. Philip Agustin, editor and publisher of the local weekly Starline Times Recorder, was killed by a single shot to the back…