CHR probes Negros broadcaster’s killing

The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) has initiated an investigation into the killing of radio broadcaster Edmund Sestoso in Dumaguete, Negros Oriental.

The CHR Central Visayas office will conduct a fact-finding investigation, chairman Chito Gascon said yesterday.

“For the longest time, as... highlighted by international reports, attacks on journalists have been prevalent in the country,” Gascon said. “The state must do all it can to investigate these cases... to hold perpetrators to account.”

The CHR had earlier urged the government to ensure the protection of media workers.

Gascon said the CHR continues to monitor all human rights abuses.

Sestoso, 51, died on Tuesday, a day after he was shot by unidentified assailants near his boarding house in Barangay Daro.

A former chairman of the Negros chapter of the National Union of Journalists in the Philippines, Sestoso hosted a news and public affairs program titled Tug-anan sa Power 91 in dy GB FM.