Geneva, 23 March 2026: One other radio skilled was killed within the Philippines final Friday, spreading panic among the many media fraternity within the island nation. The sufferer, recognized as Julio Calo (49), was shot useless by a miscreant in entrance of his residence at Barangay Robles beneath the La Castellana locality on 20 March 2026. Julio used to work as a group radio block-timer for 88.3 DNN Information FM, and he died on the spot after sustaining a critical damage to the pinnacle. The gunman left the crime scene in a white sport utility automobile.
Press Emblem Marketing campaign (PEC), the worldwide media security and rights group, condemned the incident and demanded justice for the sufferer. PEC chief Blaise Lempen noticed that the Philippines continues to be a harmful nation for journalists and different media staff. The island nation has misplaced a major variety of media workers lately, however shockingly, a lot of the instances stay unresolved, the place the perpetrators get immunity from the corrupt system. “PEC (pressemblem.ch) urges an neutral probe into the incident and stringent punishment for the homicide beneath the regulation, stated Lempen.
PECs south and southeast Asia consultant, Nava Thakuria, reported {that a} block-timer, acknowledged as a broadcaster within the Philippines, normally purchases airtime from a radio station to host group applications independently. The sufferer ran a program in a group radio station primarily based in Himamaylan Metropolis, a part metropolis in Negros Occidental, Philippines. Julio thus turns into the 14th journo-victim this yr world wide and the primary one in his nation. It recorded 4 journo-casualties- Juan Johny Dayang, Erwin Labitad Segovia, Noel Bellen Samar, and Gerry Campos in 2025.
Nava J. Thakuria
