Philippine court to rule on Tacloban journalist charged with financing terrorism, possession of firearms and explosives

Frenchie Mae Cumpio (right) is visited at Tacloban City Jail by UN Special Rapporteur Irene Khan who was in the country in January on an official trip. - IRENE KHAN’S OFFICIAL X ACCOUNT via PDI/ANN

MANILA: Media groups on Tuesday renewed their call for the release of Tacloban-based community journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio, whose case would be finally promulgated on Thursday by a Tacloban City regional trial court after nearly six years in detention on charges of financing terrorism and illegal possession of firearms and explosives.

“There is little more to be said beyond what the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) and the media community have been saying: Free Frenchie Mae Cumpio,” the NUJP said in a statement.