ON International Human Rights Day, Media Defence Southeast Asia (MDSEA) pressed three members of United Nations special bodies to intervene in the spate of attacks against Filipino journalists.

In its four-page update with urgent appeal sent to the UN on Tuesday, MDSEA president and lawyer Harry Roque urged three bodies to intervene and investigate the “continuing” incidents of extrajudicial killings of journalists in the Philippines.

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