On Monday the 13th of April Melinda “Mei” Magsino was walking home when a single assailant came up behind her and shot her in the head at point blank range. Mei had stopped working formally as a journalist a few years ago but in her time as a journalist she had a reputation of exposing the corrupt political and economic links in the Philippines. Unfortunately this is only the latest of a long line of journalists being killed in the Philippines, with human and labour rights activists also heavily targeted by these deaths squads.
On Monday the 13th of April Melinda “Mei” Magsino was walking home when a single assailant came up behind her and shot her in the head at point blank range. Mei had stopped working formally as a journalist a few years ago but in her time as a journalist she had a reputation of exposing the corrupt political and economic links in the Philippines. Unfortunately this is only the latest of a long line of journalists being killed in the Philippines, with human and labour rights activists also heavily targeted by these deaths squads.
