The Embassy of the Czech Republic within the Philippines on Monday granted P1 million fund to a Philippine-based non-government entity for a sequence of actions commemorating the lifetime of slain broadcast journalist Percival “Percy Lapid” Mabasa and underscoring press freedom.
In a press release, the Center for People’s Media mentioned the venture, known as Keeping the Flame of Freedom Alive, will embrace three boards which can be held in Dumaguete City in Negros Oriental, Cagayan de Oro City and in Manila on October 3 in time for Lapid’s first dying anniversary.
“I am very excited about the future implementation of our Transition Project because projects like this support rule of law and human rights,” Chargé d’affaires a.i. Mr. Dalibor Mi?ka of the Czech Embassy in Manila said.
“This is the main purpose of this project. I am more than confident that this one will support both, and that it will facilitate adherence to freedom of speech and freedom of media in the Philippines,” he added.
Veronica Uy, president of the Center for People’s Media, mentioned the venture additionally contains the archiving of Lapid’s broadcast episodes into one web site.
Lapid was shot useless at round in Las Piñas City on October 2022 by two suspects onboard a motorbike on his approach residence.
He is the second journalist killed beneath the Marcos administration.
Murder prices have since been filed towards suspected masterminds, which included former ex-Bureau of Corrections chief Gerald Bantag, their cohorts, inmates, amongst others.
Last June, three New Bilibid Prison inmates had been sentenced to spend two to eight years in jail for being accent to the crime of homicide of Lapid.—Llanesca Panti/LDF, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
