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Media groups urge Marcos Jr to ensure media freedom

“The president-elect of the Philippines as a result of the May 9 election must ensure the protection of media freedom in the country. Media freedom is important to fulfill the right to information for the public, which is one of the keys to democracy,” the seven groups said.

Poll body junks DQ motion against Marcos

By Joseph Cuevas The Commission on Elections (COMELEC) yesterday junked the remaining motions for reconsideration on the disqualification cases against Ferdinand “BongBong” Marcos Jr. The

Rights lawyers join calls for de Lima’s release

“These validate what we knew all along. That the legal and judicial process is being deliberately weaponized by the State and its agents for nefarious political reasons by unscrupulously constructing false narratives and peddling manufactured evidence,” the NUPL said in a statement today.