“First, they came for the journalists. We don’t know what happened after that.” The attacks on the free press and journalists are a danger to our democracy and to us Filipinos.
This year alone, and while we’re responding to a global pandemic, we have witnessed the shutdown of a far-reaching media institution and the weaponization of the law against a journalist doing unbiased reporting on extrajudicial killings in the country.
Today’s conviction sends a chilling message to all: kung kritiko ka, pwede kang ipasara at pwede kang patahimikin.
I urge everyone to speak out. Dumarami tayo. We are complicit if we are silent.
Takot sila, kaya nila tayo pinapatahimik.
https://twitter.com/risahontiveros/status/1272340777998225408?s=20