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Several arrests were made in connection with the murder; but the case was unsolved by year-end. [45] [41] [55] Nicasio (Nick) Enciso: Reporter and columnist for dailies, Manila Bulletin and its sister publication Tempo President of the Pambansang Katipunan ng mga Barangay and of the Federation of Provincial Press Clubs of the Philippines: May 26
According to the Philippine Movement for Press Freedom, 34 journalists were killed during the Marcos dictatorship. [28] In April 1973, student journalist and activist Liliosa Hilao was arrested, detained in Camp Crame, tortured, and killed by her military captors. [29] [30] She was the first political detainee killed during martial law. [31]
Madeleine Albright, a former U.S. Secretary of State, issued an opinion stating that the arrest "must be condemned by all democratic nations". [83] Similarly, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines called it "a shameless act of persecution by a bully government". [84]
Jumalon's killing brings to four the number of journalists killed since Marcos took office in June 2022, and to 199 since democracy was restored in the Philippines in 1986. That figure included 32 ...
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The government of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has taken steps to to address human rights abuses in the country, including the killings of journalists and ...
[13] The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) and the Mindanao Independent Press Council Inc. (MIPC) called the killing "brazen" and "barbaric". [13] [8] The Presidential Communications Office (PCO) expressed condolences to Jumalon's family, and condemned the attack on the journalists. [7]
Reporters Without Borders announced that at least 12 of the victims were journalists, making this the deadliest such incident in the history of news media. [30] The National Union of Journalists in the Philippines originally estimated that a total of 20 journalists were killed, including an undisclosed number of NUJP members. [28]
Reaction to the case was mixed. Before the verdict in April 2020, the annual Press Freedom Index report by Reporters Without Borders ranked the Philippines 136 out of 180 countries in terms of press freedom. [63] Historically, since the end of martial law under Ferdinand Marcos, the Philippines was regarded as having one of the most free ...