PHILIPPINES BLOCKING ENTRY OF FOREIGN JOURNALISTS WITHOUT PRIOR NOTICE AND DUE PROCESS REPRESSIVE AND COERCIVE MANILA, Philippines - The Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines (FOCAP) said the blacklisting of nine Hong Kong journalists over an unclear definition of “public safety threat” sends a chilling message to the members of the press all over the world. “While governments have the prerogative to deny entry to foreigners, we would like to clarify from the Bureau of Immigration and Deportation (BID) as well as the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency (NICA) what particular actions served as basis to declare these journalists a public safety threat, which eventually led to the blacklisting,” FOCAP said in a statement. The Bureau of Immigration (BI) office earlier confirmed that the nine Hong Kong journalists, who were not identified, were blacklisted upon the recommendation of NICA that they committed acts against President Aquino during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Bali, Indonesia in 2013.
Posted on: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 22:20:39 +0000
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