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CPJ's Lih Yi Beh hands a letter written by Frenchie Mae Cumpio, which she carried from the journalist's prison in the Philippines, to U.N. special envoy Irene Khan in Geneva on June 24, 2025.

‘A well-orchestrated lie’: Detained Philippine journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio tells UN

Geneva, June 27, 2025—A handwritten letter by journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio, who has been detained in the Philippines for more than five years without a conviction, was read out at the United Nations headquarters by U.N. special envoy Irene Khan, who called the 26-year-old’s prolonged detention “a travesty of justice.” It was the first time…

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Sri Lankans are calling for a boycott of U.S. products after the U.S. sponsored the U.N. Human Rights Council resolution calling for an investigation into possible war crimes. (Reuters/Dinuka Liyanawatte)

Eknelygoda’s wife latest victim of Sri Lankan intolerance

On Thursday and Friday, we wrote about the ugly government backlash to last week’s U.N. Human Rights Council resolution calling for an investigation into Sri Lanka’s alleged abuses of international humanitarian law during its war with Tamil separatists.

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