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| Public figures and journalists at the book launch |
Published by UNESCO and the Asian Institute of Journalism and Communication, “Crime and Unpunishment: The Killing of Filipino Journalists” is edited by Florangel Rosario-Braid, Crispin Maslog and Ramon Tuazon, covering crimes against press freedom since 1986, when democracy was restored to the Philippines after years of Martial rule.
Since then at least 125 journalists (as of June 2012) have been killed at work, according to the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility, giving the country the unenviable distinction of becoming “the second most dangerous country in the world for journalists, after Iraq.”
This notoriety reached its apex in the massacre on Nov. 23, 2009 of 32 media workers and 27 other civilians, in Ampatuan, Maguindanao.
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