The Philippines is again on the list of countries most likely to let journalists’ killings go unpunished.
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00:00The Philippines is again on the list of countries most likely to let journalist killings go
00:06unpunished.
00:07According to Media Watchdog Committee to Protect Journalists, the Philippines is in the ninth
00:11place of its 2024 Global Impunity Index rankings.
00:15The country is behind Mexico and Iraq.
00:17Haiti and Israel and Occupied Palestinian Territory are at the top two, respectively.
00:22There are still 18 unresolved murders of journalists in the Philippines, and the country has been
00:26in the index for 17 years.
00:28The Philippines and Myanmar were the only Southeast Asian countries in the CPJ's rankings.
00:34Justice remains elusive for the 32 media workers killed in the Maguindanao massacre 15 years
00:38ago, one of the deadliest attacks on the press, as well as journalists like Jerry Ortega,
00:43killed in 2011.
00:44Meanwhile, four journalists have been killed under President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
00:49The most controversial of these, broadcaster Percy Lapid's case, remains unsolved.