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Journalist Jose Rizal Pajares was arrested in Iriga City, Visayas on August 2 after allegedly accessing crime records without police permission. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate, the National Union of Journalists of The Philippines (NUJP) condemn the arrest and subsequent detention.
CCPC: Data Privacy Act as a rule doesn’t apply to information processed for journalism. Thus, the arrest of an Iriga City reporter by the police comes out as an overreach and invasive.
The reporter, Jose Rizal Pajares of Radyo Natin, is detained by the Iriga City police for days for merely scanning a police blotter in search for something to report about
PNP Camarines Sur also relieves the chief of the Iriga City police station