RSF plans to bring Ampatuans release to UN rights body
04/25/2010 An international federation of journalists issued a warning to the government that it will question before a United Nations body the actions undertaken by the government on suspects in the Maguindanao massacre mainly the withdrawal charges against Zaldy and Akmad Ampatuan, members of the clan suspected to be behind the politically-motivated murder of 57 individuals. Paris-based Reporters Without Borders or Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF) wrote President Arroyo last April 23 to bring up “your government’s decision to withdraw certain charges against Zaldy and Akmad Ampatuan, brothers of the leading suspect, has dismayed the families of the victims and journalists’ organisations.” “We hope you will give renewed assurances that impunity will not prevail in this case, which unfortunately is what has happened in many other cases of journalists murdered in your country,” RSF wrote. Source: The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/nation/20100425nat1.html |
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