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“Surveillance and types of harassment on journalists have no place in a democratic state like the Philippines that has also enshrined freedom of expression and press freedom in its Constitution.“
The NUJP called on Congress and the Supreme Court "to once and for all prove to the people that they are truly, as the Constitution envisions, independent and co-equal branches of government that are not at the beck and call of the executive."
"Pass the franchise renewal bill and let him [Duterte] veto it if he dares. And then prove yourselves worthy of being representatives of the people and defenders of their rights and liberties by overriding his veto," the NUJP said.
Davao City police blocked the media trying to enter the gates of United Church of Christ in the Philippines in Haran, Davao City. This was after some 50 men wielding bolos, members of the paramilitary group Alamara, began tearing down the fence of the UCCP's Haran Center on Saturday morning.
"We will not lose our family." -- Vice Ganda
"They subjected me to psywar and harassed me, saying I was not allowed to carry out interviews."
“We call on Congress to do what is right and immediately pass the bill to renew ABS-CBN's franchise.”
The new decade poses possible threat to ABS-CBN as the broadcast corporation’s franchise expiration approaches in less than two months, and with President Duterte’s ongoing tirades against the network’s franchise renewal.
"I need justice for my dad. 'Pag di kumpleto numero, 'di kumpleto hustisya."
“This serves as a crack to the impunity in the killings of journalists.”
The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) welcomed the decision as initial victory in the long quest for justice.
"Our primary demand is the conviction of the Ampatuans. We hope all those involved in the killing of our loved ones would be declared guilty."
"We expect nothing less than a conviction especially those directly responsible and involved in the killings. Otherwise, the mockery of justice and the culture of impunity will continue to reign and worsen."
“It (the ruling) is a rebuke against the continued exploitation of media workers through contractualization.”
"The delivery of justice for Ampatuan Massacre victims will act like a beam of light shone into a great darkness that is the escalating climate of fear and impunity under the Duterte administration."
Nonoy Espina of the NUJP called on state security forces to understand what media do -- that they are being critical not just because it wants to but because it needs to as the fourth estate.
Children of the victims of the #AmpatuanMassacre perform a song at the massacre site in sitio Masalay, barangay Salman, Ampatuan town in Maguindanao, Nov. 17 to commemorate the 10th year of the single deadliest attack on journalists in recent history.
“The government and the state remain unbothered by the massacre, considering they were the victims of the agents of state itself.”
"If there would be no conviction, I'm sorry to say press freedom is dead."
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