The Altermidya Network expresses alarm over the recent spate of attacks against community journalists in the Bicol region. These incidents undermine the crucial role of journalists in providing information and threaten their fundamental right to free expression. Vince Casilihan, anchor of...
Court hearings for the case of Tacloban-based journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio resumed this week with the prosecution presenting more witnesses against our colleague. Many of these witnesses are reportedly the same police officers involved in Frenchie Mae's arrest. They...
We express deep concern on the malicious tarpaulins that featured Mandaluyong RTC Judge Monique Quisumbing-Ignacio, which were seen on at least two pedestrian bridges along Edsa. The effort is apparently aimed at harassing the judge for issuing a favorable resolution...
We in the Altermidya Network welcome the decision of Judge Monique Quisumbing-Ignacio of the Mandaluyong Regional Trial Court to grant the motion to release Manila Today editor Lady Ann Salem and trade unionist Rodrigo Esparago. Judge Ignacio dismissed the charges of...
THE ALTERMIDYA NETWORK condemns the Cordillera Regional Law Enforcement Coordinating Committee (RLECC) for passing a resolution recommending a “Tokhang-style” tactic against individuals, including journalists, who are known "Left-leaning personalities". This...
While we in the Altermidya Network hail the order of Mandaluyong Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 209 Judge Monique Quisumbing-Ignacio dismissing the charges of illegal possession of firearms & explosives against our colleague Lady Ann Salem and labor union...
Today, it is exactly a month since journalist Lady Ann Salem of Manila Today, along with six trade unionists, was abducted and detained by the Philippine National Police on Human Rights Day, December 10. The past weeks have been filled with outrage as state forces...
TWO JOURNALISTS ARRESTS in 2020, ten months apart: One was in February, a few weeks before the pandemic fully enveloped the country, while the most recent one was in December, ironically coinciding with the observance of the International Human Rights Day. Frenchie...
We demand the PNP to release Lady Ann! The alternative media has faced continuous repression under this administration, and we will not allow another journalist to be attacked. We urge our fellow journalists and human rights defenders to join in our call to free Lady Ann.
ONCE AGAIN, state forces led the hostile red-baiting of independent media at the December 1 Senate hearing, as they presented the Altermidya Network and its members nationwide as so-called communist fronts. The red-tagging of Altermidya journalists, online and...
Altermidya Network denounces the relentless and escalating attacks against alternative news outfit Northern Dispatch (Nordis). In the latest development in what can be considered as a series of overlapping legal maneuvers, a cyberlibel charge has been filed against...
We, independent media outfits and journalists under the Altermidya Network, express our support to the People’s Initiative to Grant ABS-CBN a People’s Franchise or Pirma Kapamilya, a movement that seek to gather 7 million signatures for ABS-CBN.
STATEMENT ALTERMIDYA NETWORK condemns the brazen assault on press freedom against local community radio Radyo Natin Guimba (RNG) in Nueva Ecija, which faces charges of cyberlibel and alleged violations of the Bayanihan Act. The mayor’s charges against RNG, filed in...