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A vigil in Sliema, Malta, for Daphne Caruana Galizia, a critical blogger killed in a car bombing in October 2017. (AFP/Matthew Mirabelli)

Getting Away with Murder

October 31, 2017 8:00 AM EDT

CPJ’s 2017 Global Impunity Index spotlights countries where journalists are slain and the killers go free

The Philippines ranks fourth on CPJ's most recent global Impunity Index, a measure of countries where journalists are killed and their murderers go free. Here, Filipino journalists escort the coffin of slain news reporter Alex Balcoba during his funeral in Manila, June 1, 2016. (Reuters/Romeo Ranoco)

Reporter shot and killed in the Philippines

August 7, 2017 12:31 PM EDT

Bangkok, August 7, 2017–A Filipino journalist was shot and killed today while riding a motorcycle in the town of President Quirino, on the southern island of Mindanao, news reports said. The Committee to Protect Journalists condemned the killing and called on Philippine authorities to identify the assailants and swiftly bring them to justice.

In this November 23, 2015, file photo, relatives of journalists killed march in Manila to commemorate their deaths and to demand justice. (Reuters/Romeo Ranoco)

Philippine radio commentator critically wounded in shooting

July 28, 2017 12:17 PM EDT

Bangkok, July 28, 2017–Philippine authorities should thoroughly investigate the shooting of radio commentator Julito Orillaneda, which left the journalist seriously wounded, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

Newspaper columnist murdered in the Philippines

March 13, 2017 12:50 PM EDT

Bangkok, March 13, 2017–Philippine police and prosecutors should credibly investigate today’s murder of newspaper columnist Joaquin Briones and should swiftly bring all those responsible to justice, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte (left), then mayor of Davao, inspects an assault rifle with Regional Police Chief Miguel Abaya (center) in the late 1980s. (Reuters/Renato Lumawag)

Ex-police official admits role in Filipino radio journalist’s murder

February 21, 2017 10:34 AM EST

Bangkok, February 21, 2017–Former Philippine policeman Arturo Lascanas in a news conference yesterday acknowledged his role in the September 2003 assassination of radio journalist Juan “Jun” Pala, a crime he claimed was ordered and paid for by then Davao City mayor, now President Rodrigo Duterte.