MANILA — The militant Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) and the ANAKPAWIS party list group raised a howl and expressed their dismay on the apparent feet dragging of the Commission on Election (COMELEC) on the electioneering cases they filed against the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and high officials of the Macapagal-Arroyo regime while railroading cases against them.
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today condemned ?threats to independent journalism and free expression? in Senegal after a politician threatened radio journalists and a judge sentenced the director of a newspaper to jail for slander.
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called on Nigerian authorities to put an end of media intimidation ahead of tomorrow?s presidential elections after the recent raid of a television station in Abuja by intelligence service and the shut down of two other media outlets in the last 10 days.
Woodside, New York ? Anakbayan NY/NJ, the local Filipino American youth advocacy group, took it upon themselves last Saturday to inform the Filipino community on the Felisa Garcia case. They sponsored a full investigation for the unexplained death of Felisa “Fely” Garcia, 58, a Filipina domestic caregiver who died from an alleged suicide last March 14 in the Bronx.
MANILA — Anakpawis Representative and political detainee today said that the Commission on Elections should stop dilly-dallying on the issue of fake and government-funded party-lists and take action to immediately disqualify these.