Cumpio and four human rights advocates were arrested in a February 7, 2020 raid led by police and military personnel at the Eastern Vista staff house in Tacloban City
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CEBU, Philippines – Journalists and activists called for Tacloban-based journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio’s freedom as she testified before a local court in Leyte on Monday, November 11, to defend herself from allegations of illegal firearms possession and terror financing. The media groups added in their statement that the Anti-Terror Act and the Terrorism Financing Prevention and Suppression Act, the same laws used against Cumpio, have long been weaponized against government critics, activists, and human rights defenders.
“Their prolonged imprisonment is a direct violation of their right to swift and fair justice, revealing a system that aims to silence progressive voices and stifle activism,” Althea Nicole Canapi, editor-in-chief of UP Visayas College of Management publication“We have never since forgotten how the supposed funds for Cumpio’s local radio show were used against her and other alternative media outfits to paint a grim blueprint of terrorism financing for the state’s weaponization on all forms of...
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