MANILA, Philippines — Human Rights Watch on Thursday expressed grave concern over the recent killings of a priest and a journalist as well as the reported attacks against peasants and members of tribal communities. Last week, Dennis Denora, a journalist from Davao del Norte, was shot dead near the wet market of Panabo City. He was the 11th journalist killed during the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines said. Religious superiors demand justice for slain priestThe Association of Major Religious Superiors in the Philippines also denounced in the strongest terms the “senseless and unjustifiable killing” of Nilo. READ: ‘They’re killing the shepherds’: Archbishop Villegas laments killing of Nueva Ecija priest

Source: Philippine Star June 14, 2018 03:11 UTC