Journalists decry harassment of reporter
November 18, 2011
ANGELES CITY — The National Union of Journalists of the
Philippines-Pampanga (NUJP-Pampanga) denounced Wednesday the harassment and abduction of a local journalist by agents of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) while he was covering a raid of a nightclub along Fields Avenue here.
“Unless we act on such cases, we perpetrate the culture of impunity that led to the Maguindanao massacre that also killed many journalists. We want the NBI agents named and charged,” said NUJP-Pampanga chairman Ashley Manabat.
NBI regional director Ric Diaz confirmed the incident, but said he thought that his apology to victim Bernard Galang, correspondent of the People’s Tonight, was enough.
He said, however, that he is prepared to file appropriate charges against five of his agents allegedly involved in the abduction and harassment of Galang, after he was told this was the demand of the NUJP-Pampanga.
Galang said that around 7 p.m. last Friday, he went to Fields Avenue to cover the NBI raid of Stampede Bar.
“The raid was over and four females were being led by NBI agents into an old van when I decided to take pictures using my small digital camera,” Galang said.
One bespectacled agent, who was wearing a jacket marked NBI emerged from the van and asked for Galang’s identity.
“I informed him my ID card was in my shoulder bag and as I was rummaging for my press ID in my bag, the agent ordered one of his men to grab my camera,” Galang recalled.
Galang said the NBI agent whose name he did not get, also ordered his armed men to arrest him.
“Two of the agents held my arm and led me into a parked Hilux van. I could not even protest because they had what seemed to be Uzi rifles,” he said.
Galang said that in the van, he was made to sit between two agents, while two more were seated at the back. As the driver sped off towards the north, one of the agents erased all contents of his camera.
Galang said that about a kilometer away from the raid site, one of the agents got a call from his cellphone instructing he could be set free.
“That was when they returned my camera and I was dropped off in the area of Villa del Sol subdivision. I took a jeepney and had the incident blottered at police station 4,” Galang recalled. (Reynaldo G. Navales)
Source: www.sunstar.com.ph/pampanga/local-news/2011/11/17/journalists-decry-harassment-reporter-191049
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