25 September 2006
Alert
Journalist Edgar Amoro's alleged murderer caught by Pagadian police
Incident details
Edgar Amoro, Edgar Damalerio
journalist(s)
killed
(RSF/IFEX) - Mohammed Maulana, the alleged murderer of journalist Edgar Amoro, was arrested on 18 September 2006 in Pagadian (the capital of Zamboanga del Sur province on the southern island of Mindanao). Maulana was caught with three accomplices while committing a robbery and is now being held in Pagadian's provincial prison. He is suspected of murdering Amoro in February 2005 because Amoro was the key witness in the May 2002 murder of fellow journalist Edgar Damalerio, 13 May 2002.
For background information on this case, see:
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=12446
Source:
Reporters Without Borders
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75002 Paris
France
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