PHILIPPINES: American environmental journalist shot
Sunday, 11 August 2019, 5:09 pm
Article: Pacific Media Watch
PHILIPPINES: American environmental journalist shot, critically wounded in Ifugao
MANILA (Committee To Protect Journalists/Pacific Media Watch): An American journalist working in the Philippines on indigenous environmental and human rights issues has been shot and critically wounded while fetching his daughter from school in the northern province of Ifugao, according to his news media outlet and other press reports, says the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
The New York-based CPJ has condemned the brazen attack and called on authorities to identify the assailants and swiftly bring them to justice.
Brandon Lee, a 37-year-old reporter with the Baguio City-based Northern Dispatch, or Nordis, a weekly English language newspaper and website covering the local region, was shot by unidentified assailants at around 6pm in front of his house in the town of Lagwe, the reports said.
A Chinese-American from San Francisco, Lee is married to a Filipina woman and had settled in Ifugao.
The reporter sustained serious gunshot wounds to the face, neck, and back, and was still conscious when taken to the Lagwe hospital, the reports said.
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