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MANILA - Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr on Sunday strongly condemned the killing of a Filipino journalist and ordered the police to conduct an investigation to bring the perpetrators to justice.
The journalist, Juan Jumalon, also known as "DJ Johnny Walker", was shot by unidentified assailants while broadcasting from his home in a southern Philippine town on Sunday morning, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) said in a statement, citing initial reports.
"Attacks on journalists will not be tolerated in our democracy, and those who threaten the freedom of the press will face the full consequences of their actions," Marcos said in a post on X platform.
Media watchdog NUJP also condemned the "brazen killing" which it said was caught on a livestream of Jumalon's show. Jumalon's home in Calamba, Misamis Occidental served as his radio station.
Jumalon's killing brings to four the number of journalists killed since Marcos took office in June 2022, and to 199 since democracy was restored in the Philippines in 1986. That figure included 32 killed in a single incident in 2009.
The Philippines has one of Asia's most liberal media environments, but it remains one of the world's most dangerous places for journalists, particularly in its provinces.
It ranked as the eighth worst country when it comes to prosecuting killers of journalists, according to 2023 Global Impunity Index released by the Committee to Protect Journalists released this week.
Source: Reuters
菲律宾马科斯谴责杀害记者事件，下令调查
马尼拉 - 菲律宾总统小费迪南德·马科斯周日强烈谴责杀害一名菲律宾记者的事件，并命令警方进行调查，将凶手绳之以法。
菲律宾全国记者联盟（NUJP）在一份声明中表示，这名记者胡安·朱马隆（Juan Jumalon），也被称为“DJ约翰尼·沃克”（DJ Johnny Walker），周日早上在菲律宾南部小镇的家中进行广播时被身份不明的袭击者枪杀。 援引初步报告。
马科斯在 X 平台上发帖称：“我们的民主制度不会容忍对记者的攻击，那些威胁新闻自由的人将面临其行为的全部后果。”
媒体监管机构 NUJP 也谴责了这起“明目张胆的杀戮”，称这起事件是在 Jumalon 节目的直播中捕捉到的。 朱马隆位于西米萨米斯州卡兰巴的家是他的广播电台。
朱马隆遇害事件使自马科斯 2022 年 6 月上任以来遇害记者人数达到 4 人，自 1986 年菲律宾恢复民主以来遇害记者人数达到 199 人。这一数字包括 2009 年的一次事件中造成 32 人死亡。
菲律宾拥有亚洲最自由的媒体环境之一，但对于记者来说，它仍然是世界上最危险的地方之一，尤其是在其各省份。
根据保护记者委员会本周发布的 2023 年全球有罪不罚指数，在起诉杀害记者的凶手方面，该国排名第八。
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