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According to the report, the Presidential Task Force on Media Security (PTFoMS) has requested the provincial prosecutor of Masbate for clarification on the filing of a murder charge against two local journalists, who were also accused of membership with a local communist terrorist movement.
The report also stated that PTFoMS executive director Paul Gutierrez, in a letter to Masbate Provincial Prosecutor Jeremias Mapula, sought assurance that he adhered to the provisions of the Department of Justice (DOJ) in identifying local broadcasters Benjamin Gigante and Jose Alfaro as members of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army (CPP-NPA) and that there are enough evidence pointing to them as participants in the killing of a certain Richard Bauso in Cawayan town on April 6.
Specifically, Gutierrez sought clarification on whether the purported membership of Gigante and Alfaro with the CPP-NPA was validated by the appropriate intelligence units of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police.
The report added that Gutierrez reminded Mapula that as the government’s mechanism to address all violations on the right to life, liberty, and security of all members of the media, the PTFoMS is chaired by the Secretary of Justice with the full support of all the attached agencies of the DOJ, including the National Prosecution Service, of which you are a part of.
In addition to the report, it appeared these local media personalities were first accused of being members of the local communist terrorist movement in Masbate before being linked to the murder of the victims, the report said.
Source: PNA
The report also stated that PTFoMS executive director Paul Gutierrez, in a letter to Masbate Provincial Prosecutor Jeremias Mapula, sought assurance that he adhered to the provisions of the Department of Justice (DOJ) in identifying local broadcasters Benjamin Gigante and Jose Alfaro as members of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army (CPP-NPA) and that there are enough evidence pointing to them as participants in the killing of a certain Richard Bauso in Cawayan town on April 6.
Specifically, Gutierrez sought clarification on whether the purported membership of Gigante and Alfaro with the CPP-NPA was validated by the appropriate intelligence units of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police.
The report added that Gutierrez reminded Mapula that as the government’s mechanism to address all violations on the right to life, liberty, and security of all members of the media, the PTFoMS is chaired by the Secretary of Justice with the full support of all the attached agencies of the DOJ, including the National Prosecution Service, of which you are a part of.
In addition to the report, it appeared these local media personalities were first accused of being members of the local communist terrorist movement in Masbate before being linked to the murder of the victims, the report said.
Source: PNA