MANILA — Journalist Jofelle Tesorio, who was ordered jailed by a local judge yesterday morning, was released after almost ten hours in detention.
Tesorio was brought to a women’s detention facility in Camp Karingal in Quezon City shortly after posting a P20,000 bail bond about 9 a.m. Thursday morning.
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Activists and human-rights advocates stage a demonstration on San Pedro Street on Thursday to denounce what they claim as the government's intensifying anti-insurgency campaign that victimizes children. The photo in the placard is that of Grecil Buya, the 9-year-old girl from New Bataan, Compostela Valley, who was killed in March during a military raid on members of the communist New People's Army. 
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MANILA — President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Wednesday invited executives of several media outfits to Malaca?ang to solicit their help for the last three years of her administration, during which she hopes to build her “legacy.”
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has renewed its calls for the Philippines government to decriminalize libel, after another journalist was jailed for defamation in a lawsuit issued by a former congressman.
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The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUUJP) Davao Chapter condemns the jailing of Jofelle Tesorio for libel.
Ms Tesorio is former correspondent of the Philippine Daily Inquirer and editor of Bandillo ng Palawan, now with the Bangkok-based Asia News Network.
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