“Not only does it violate basic civil rights by arbitrarily judging people sans due process, it also poses a real danger to life and limb given the trail of bodies tokhang has left in the drug war.”
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Case vs. Nueva Ecija radio station dismissed for lack of evidence
MANILA The case filed by a barangay chair in Nueva Ecija against a local community radio station over an alleged violation of Republic Act 11469 or the “Bayanihan to Heal as One Act” has been dismissed due to lack of evidence.
Rolanda Domingo, chair of Barangay Manacsac in Guimba, Nueva Ecija sued members of Radyo Natin Guimba (RNG) and other citizens in June 2020 for supposedly spreading false information.
But the case was dismissed by the provincial local prosecutor. The Cabanatuan City prosecutor’s office ruled that there was a lack of evidence to support the allegations against RNG station manager Gie Herrera, field reporter Lina Villaflor, palay trader Nila Dela Cruz, and sponsor-donor and peasant leader Zandro Tomas.
“Perhaps it is not too late for the members of the House of Representatives to salvage their reputations, to prove that they are what the Constitution charges them to be, members of a co-equal and independent branch of government, and no longer the willing accomplices to the continuing siege on press freedom and all our other rights and liberties.”
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Journalists and press freedom and human rights advocates hold a Bike for Press Freedom action in Quezon City on Sunday, February 7, 2021 to protest the red-tagging against media. They are also calling for the release of arrested journalists Lady Ann Salem and Frenchie Mae Cumpio. DANNY PATA Journalists, rights defenders gather in biking event for press freedom
Published February 7, 2021 9:38am
Updated February 7, 2021 9:53am Journalists and advocates for press freedom and human rights held a cycling event on Sunday morning as they called attention to what they said was the “worsening state of press freedom in the country.” According to a report of Carlo Mateo on Dobol B sa News TV, the Bike for Press Freedom was led by the Altermidya Network, National Union of Journalists of the Philippines, and the International Association of Women in Radio and Television-Philippines.