By Frenchie Mae Cumpio You would find her at her usual spot even in detention. A five-by-three-meter parcel of land designated as the garden for political prisoners in the Correctional Institution for Women (CIW) in Mandaluyong City, now filled with vegetable transplants and budding camote...
The Philippine government continues to make a mockery of the international statutes it is bound to uphold by refusing to facilitate the release of Frenchie Mae Cumpio, Marielle Domequil, and Alexander Abinguna, three of the Tacloban 5 whose continued detention...
HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYERS representing community journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio and Church worker Marielle Domequil have asked the Court of Appeals (CA) to overturn a lower court ruling denying their bail pending appeal. The counsels argued that their terrorism financing...
On 23 March 2026, the judge is scheduled to decide on the defence’s motion for reconsideration of Frenchie Mae Cumpio’s conviction for the bogus “financing of terrorism,” along with a motion to reconsider her bail. A coalition of international and local press freedom...
Sa pagitan ng tulog at higaanAy hindi ang kayakap na kumotSa gabing sa lamig ibinalotO ang unan na saksiSa mga binitawang luha at pighati Dahil ang pagitanAy higit pa sa kanyang sukatin—Ang mga bakit, sana at alin—Mag-uumpisa sa alaala nilaAt kapag malapit na...
Ituturo tayo ng mga isip-bataAt ang daliri’y kakagatinDahil oo nga pala, sabi ni lolaBawal ituro ang mga walang sala. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Si Frenchie Mae Cumpio ay 26-taong gulang na community journalist na...
SalamatHanggang ngayon mahigpit ang pagtangansa kabila ng ligalig at kagipitanSa gitna ng unos na bumubuhos sa bayan. Dama ko ang pagod moNa isigaw ang katotohanang pilit na binuburaNg mga ganid na nagpapakalat ng kathaAt ikaw na nagsusumikap ang ginawa pang...