Bad Year for Journalists – 2020

Murders, assaults, record imprisonments, Covid all take their toll

On December 10, armed Philippine police raided the home of a young journalist named Lady Ann Salem, an editor at Manila Today, an English-language website, and later charged her and six trade unionists with illegal possession of weapons that her allies said had been planted after she was forced to turn her back during the raid. Salem, a member of the Na…