![[Statement] Cordillera ‘tokhang’ is an abomination](https://nujp.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/153386666_10164825592550374_7229050370965496371_o-400x250.jpg)
The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines urges the Regional Law Enforcement Coordinating Committee in the Cordillera to drop its ill-conceived plan to subject leftists, including our colleagues in media, to the controversial "tokhang" tactic of the...
![[Statement] Bukidnon execs urged to go after red-tagging page](https://nujp.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/153248177_10164813592000374_8267131356984212827_o-400x250.jpg)
The National Union ofJournalists of the Philippines denounces the people behind the Facebook page "Kamatooran" for red-tagging us and our former director Cong Corrales, associate editor of Cagayan de Oro's Gold Star Daily. This page, which names itself "truth"...
On Friday, February 19, at 10 a.m. Manila time, there will be a gathering of journalists and media groups at the Mandaluyong City Regional Trial Court to call for the release of our colleague Lady Ann Salem, who continues to be detained even after the judge dismissed...
![[Statement] FREE ICY SALEM: The law is meant to protect, not persecute](https://nujp.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/130131259_1857949497687836_5779826018483233257_o-400x250.jpg)
(Photo: Altermidya People's Network) The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines condemns the police and Mandaluyong City prosecutor's office for cruelly continuing to block freedom for Manila Today editor Lady Ann Salem and trade unionist Rodrigo Esparago...
![[Statement] There is no ‘burden of denial,’ only burden of proof](https://nujp.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Screen-Shot-2021-02-04-at-5.52.30-PM-400x250.png)
(Photo: Lt. Gen. Cirilito Sobejana, chief of Armed Forces of the Philippines. Screenshot from RTVM/ Inquirer.net) The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines is aghast at AFP chief Cirilito Sobejana's suggestion that Inquirer.net's Tetch Torres-Tupas...
![[Statement] NUJP to Congress: Prove independence, grant ABS-CBN franchise](https://nujp.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/DSC00564-400x250.jpg)
We are tempted to thank President Rodrigo Duterte for proving us right about what we have been saying all along, that the shutdown of ABS-CBN was a personal vendetta that a lapdog Congress helped seal. Why else would he rail about ordering the National...
![[Statement] Why we resist. No to Terror Law!](https://nujp.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/110146848_10163914306005374_7270760102099752420_o-400x250.jpg)
On February 2, the day the Supreme Court began hearing oral arguments on the petitions challenging the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020, Lt Gen Antonio Parlade Jr tool to Facebook to falsely accuse reporter Tetch Torres-Tupas of Inquirer.net of "fake news" and suggested she...
![[Statement] End the injustice, free Frenchie Mae!](https://nujp.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/147432037_10164752343115374_6288573139890685933_n-400x250.jpg)
A year ago today, our colleague, community journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio of Leyte's Eastern Vista, was arrested along with four human rights activists in simultaneous police raids. In a travesty that has become all too familiar, the authorities trumpeted the...
![[Statement] NUJP hails dismissal of unjust raps vs Icy Salem, calls for accountability](https://nujp.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/free-lady-ann-salem_nujp-400x250.jpg)
The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines hails the dismissal by Mandaluyong RTC Presiding Judge Monique Quisumbing-Ignacio of the clearly trumped-up charges of illegal possession and explosives against our colleague, Manila Today editor Lady Ann Salem, and...