Joint Statement For the past three years, community journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio has been detained over trumped-up charges of illegal possession of firearms and explosives and terrorist financing. Frenchie Mae is part of the ‘Tacloban 5’ human rights defenders who were arrested during...
National alternative media group Altermidya strongly denounces the intimidation and arrest of Davao-based reporter Glenn Jester Hitgano of Radyo ni Juan. Hitgano was interviewing protesting workers from banana company Philippine Dream Farm Dev’t in Carmen, Davao del...
On The International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists, Altermidya is publishing this opinion piece by Annie Game, Executive Director of IFEX, a global network promoting and defending freedom of expression and information. On this International Day to...
Altermidya Network, the broad alliance of alternative media and community journalists groups in the Philippines, denounces the patently unreasonable manner in which the University of the Philippines Diliman’s Executive Committee (EC) ordered the suspension of the...