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Int’l media groups demand justice for slain Cavite-based tabloid reporter April 8, 2014 11:21am Even as they lamented the continued impunity against media workers in the Philippines, international media groups on Monday demanded justice for a Cavite-based journalist who was gunned down in her house last Sunday. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) scored the…

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April 9, 2014

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Int’l media groups demand justice for slain Cavite-based tabloid reporter
April 8, 2014 11:21am

Even as they lamented the continued impunity against media workers in the Philippines, international media groups on Monday demanded justice for a Cavite-based journalist who was gunned down in her house last Sunday.

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) scored the brutal killing of Rubylita Garcia, 52, who it noted is the first Filipino journalist to be killed in 2014.

“With impunity for journalist murders now a major priority for the United Nations, the Aquino government is guilty by its own inaction. In the global arena, it can no longer continue to foster this rampant abuse of human rights by its own failures to act,” it said.

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