Reporters Without Borders / Reporters sans fronti?res
Press Release / Communiqu?
11.04.07
RADIO JOURNALIST GETS FOUR AND A HALF YEARS IN PRISON FOR DEFAMING LEGISLATOR
Reporters Without Borders today condemned the four-and-a-half-year prison sentence which dxMF Radyo Bombo presenter Alex
Organic producers in Davao City are saying that the support shown to them by the city government is sending them a mixed feeling of happiness and hope.
For the past many years, organic farmers have been left out of the picture of government agricultural priorities as the thriving market for synthetic agri-chemicals and other inputs have allegedly been benefiting even the agencies concerned with farming like the Department of Agriculture.
Media Release: Philippines April 10, 2007
Journalist jailed for four years after revealing politician?s affair
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has pleaded again for the decriminalisation of libel in the Philippines, after a journalist was sentenced to over four years? jail.
Some areas in Bajada will have no power from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM on Friday, April 13, as Davao Light and Power Company conducts pole electrical works on Rimas Street, beside the Shell station.
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The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalist has expressed concern over the jailing of former Bombo Radyo broadcaster Alex “Lex” Adonis, who was convicted and imprisoned for libel charged by Davao City congressman Prospero Nograles. Inquirer columnist Conrado de Quiros has likewise railed against Adonis’s fate.