Veteran radio broadcaster Percival Mabasa, more popularly known as Percy Lapid, was shot dead in his vehicle in Las Piñas City, police reported Monday evening.
According to Las Piñas City
Police, Lapid was gunned down by two armed and unidentified suspects at
the gate of a subdivision along Aria St., Barangay Talon Dos. In relation to
this, Canada
and European Union (EU) member states France, Netherlands, and Denmark on
Tuesday expressed “grave concern” over the killing of veteran radio broadcaster
Percival Mabasa, widely known as Percy Lapid. In a joint statement, Canada and
Netherlands, co-chairs of the Media Freedom Coalition, urged the Philippine
government for an immediate investigation on the incident, a call which France,
Denmark, and the EU backed. “Journalist killings strike at the very core of
media freedom & can create a chilling effect that curtails the ability of
journalists to report news freely & safely,” it added. After a
Philippine journalist Percy Lapid was shot in his vehicle in Las Piñas City on
Monday, October 3, Senate Minority Leader Koko Pimentel III said the prevailing
culture of violence and impunity in the Philippines remains a “serious
challenge to the Marcos administration.”
Pimentel noted there are still
at least 13 unresolved killings of journalists in the past 10 years.
Lapid, who was critical of
both Duterte and Marcos administration, is the second journalist killed under
the Marcos Jr. administration where attacks on journalists and press freedom
commonly happened.
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