“We are not discounting the possibility that the shooting could be related to the victim’s work in media,” local police chief Jaime Santos said in a statement. Videos on Mabasa’s YouTube channel, which has 216,000 subscribers, showed he had been critical of the previous president and some policies and officials in incumbent Ferdinand Marcos Jr’s administration. Rights group Karapatan described him as “one of the country’s fiercest truth-tellers”.
Mabasa’s family called his killing a “deplorable crime” and demanded “his cowardly assassins be brought to justice.” The Philippines has one of Asia’s most liberal media environments, but it remains of the world’s most dangerous places for journalists, particularly in its provinces.Īt least 187 have been killed in the past 35 years in the Philippines, according to international watchdog Reporters Without Borders, including 32 killed in a single incident in 2009. It followed the fatal stabbing last month of radio journalist Rey Blanco in central Philippines. Don't miss out on the latest news and information. The national police vowed to bring justice over the attack. PH logs 1,347 new COVID-19 infections active tally down to 26,792. “That the incident took place in Metro Manila indicates how brazen the perpetrators were, and how authorities have failed to protect journalists as well as ordinary citizens from harm,” said the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines. Maria Ressa, the co-founder of the independent news organization. Philippine police rescue 29 trafficking victims from gaming operator Philippines to shut 175 offshore gambling firms Marcos orders aid for typhoon-struck. The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) on Monday denied the petition for provisional authority and/or interim relief filed by Manila Electric. Radio journalist Percival Mabasa, 63, was killed by two assailants at the gate of a residential compound in the Las Pinas area of Manila on Monday night, police said. The result of a lotto drawing in the Philippines has set off a national debate about. ERC junks Meralco rate increase, rules plea ‘no basis’ to be granted. met US President Joe Biden in New York last week, there was an uncomfortable sense of deja vu for some older Filipinos.
A Philippine journalist has been shot dead while driving in the country’s capital, police said on Tuesday, prompting condemnation from media groups and activists, who described his assassination as a blow to press freedom. W hen Philippine President Ferdinand Bongbong Marcos Jnr.
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