Press Release
February 14, 2019

STATEMENT OF SEN NANCY BINAY ON DEFENDING FREEDOM OF THE PRESS

It is saddening to see how journalists around the world are being restricted, intimidated, silenced, attacked, and constantly threatened even in countries where there is seemingly a democratic space.

The chilling effect of criminalizing journalism should never be helplessly accepted as a convenient necessity to silence those who speak against the status quo.

We have fought hard to regain press freedom, and Philippine media has never been more under threat as it is now since 1986.

Freedom of the press is one of the hallmarks of democracy--and crippling the messenger does not make a thousand messengers broken.

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