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Aside from calling on governments across the globe to free imprisoned journalists, they also called to end impunity for those who attack the press.
Together with, and partly as a result of, its attacks on the press, it is leaving behind it neither change nor development, but more of the same rule of the few, even worse poverty, and, as it kept reminding us, the use of State violence and terror against anyone who dared exercise the freedoms the Constitution protects.
The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines assailed the NTC order, adding that it would "do no good to the Filipino people if the country’s biggest media corporation, one that is relied upon by a great number of the people during this pandemic for news, entertainment and relief delivery, if it ceases operations tomorrow."
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