Beh Lih Yi 馬麗怡
@behlihyi
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Head of @CPJAsia at @pressfreedom. Formerly @malaysiakini @AFP @TRF via 🇲🇾🇭🇰🇮🇩🇩🇪. Beh = surname. Usual disclaimers apply
Joined October 2009
“A landmark mission with immediate impacts” The MFC's new article spotlights how embassies and leading press freedom groups joined forces in a landmark mission to support journalist safety in the Philippines. Link in next tweet 👇1/2
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On 26 June, the Deputy Head of Mission of the Embassy of the Netherlands to the Philippines, Robert van der Hum, was able to visit detained journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio. Ms. Cumpio has been in pre-trial detention for more than 5 years.👇 https://t.co/7Vxkyhv1CH
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Last week, representatives of organisations in the MFC Consultative Network representatives visited the #Philippines, to collaborate with the local MFC Embassy network. Together, they addressed media freedom challenges facing Filipino journalists. 👇 https://t.co/NYWkiqWcOa
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5 years ago today, Beijing imposed the National Security Law on Hong Kong that has "extinguished" the city's "political and civil vibrancy". "Increasingly, only Chinese Communist Party loyalists...can occupy key positions in society." Read @hrw's report
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China’s government has erased Hong Kong’s freedoms since imposing the draconian National Security Law on June 30, 2020.
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It’s been years since mass arrests all but silenced pro-democracy activism in Hong Kong. But a crackdown on dissent is still expanding, hitting restaurants, bookstores and other small businesses through regulatory pressure. A story on their struggles: https://t.co/XavkLcmCXG
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“There has never been an international financial center in history that operates with restrictions on info” On the 5th anniversary of the Beijing-imposed security law on #HongKong, CPJ shows why a law that is eroding press freedom is also bad for business https://t.co/Bwllh4DdX8
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Hong Kong, an international financial hub and once a beacon of free media, is now in the grip of a rapid decline in press freedom that threatens the city’s status as a global financial information...
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“How do we even combat a well-orchestrated lie?” wrote jailed journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio in a letter, which U.N. special envoy @Irenekhan read at a U.N. Human Rights Council side event about freedom of expression in the #Philippines, co-hosted by CPJ. Read the full letter⤵️
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The top American diplomat in Hong Kong on Thursday criticised Hong Kong's use of the national security law to jail prominent campaigners for democracy, including media tycoon Jimmy Lai, and engage in the "transnational repression" of activists abroad. https://t.co/Oy8ai2wEEU
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The top American diplomat in Hong Kong on Thursday criticised Hong Kong's use of the national security law to jail prominent campaigners for democracy, including media tycoon Jimmy Lai, and engage in...
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@eduardosuarez @richrdfletcher @janet_steele @behlihyi @joshua_ogawa "Asia is the region with the highest number of journalists in prison, more than 1/3 of the global total. That shows me 2 things: there is hunger and appetite for independent news, and governments are very afraid of quality and factual news" said @behlihyi
https://t.co/ZJvyW5dbZm
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@eduardosuarez @richrdfletcher @janet_steele @behlihyi @joshua_ogawa "The people who are really worried about AI replacing journalism aren't doing journalism, if all we're doing is just repackaging press releases from the government, yeah let AI do that, but that's not journalism," @janet_steele said https://t.co/ZJvyW5dbZm
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@eduardosuarez @richrdfletcher @janet_steele @behlihyi @joshua_ogawa "There is a competition going on there where misinformation often comes from the top, comes from officials, politicians. We've seen that in Hong Kong, in the Philippines, and that tarnished the reputations of journalists," @behlihyi said https://t.co/ZJvyW5dbZm
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Join us in a conversation about freedom of expression in the Philippines. 24 June at 12, Geneva. Online link 👇@Irenekhan @CPJAsia @FranciscansIntl @CIVICUSalliance @hrw @ESCRNet @omctorg @ouikomene
#Philippines: Join us for a UN Human Rights Council side event, co-hosted by CPJ, on the findings of the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression from her official visit to the Philippines. ➡️ Watch live tomorrow at 12 PM CEST on CPJ Asia’s Facebook page:
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#Philippines: Join us for a UN Human Rights Council side event, co-hosted by CPJ, on the findings of the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression from her official visit to the Philippines. ➡️ Watch live tomorrow at 12 PM CEST on CPJ Asia’s Facebook page:
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I talked to the @CPJAsia's @behlihyi about the continuing impunity against the Asian and PH press, the slow trial of 26yo Frenchie Mae Cumpio, and why Marcos needs to seize the chance to stand with the press, as CPJ agrees there's been no meaningful change https://t.co/ywLVvcvlSc
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The Committee to Protect Journalists, as part of the #HoldTheLineCoalition, welcomes @mariaressa and @rapplerdotcom's acquittal on foreign ownership case, urges closure of remaining case. Read more: https://t.co/vTYmytpm0F
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#Philippines: CPJ and partners @RSF_en, Free Press Unlimited met with Roy Mabasa, the brother of radio journalist Percival Mabasa - who was murdered in 2022 - in Manila this week. The three press freedom groups welcome the Philippine national police chief's pledge to arrest the
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Gerry Ortega, a journalist from the #Philippines, was murdered in 2011. Today the family of Gerry Ortega thanked the Media Freedom Coalition, and MFC Consultative Network organisations, for their ongoing support in securing justice. 👇 https://t.co/pWWUpIGL0s
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#Philippines: CPJ, partners denied visit to jailed Philippine journalist - Committee to Protect Journalists
cpj.org
Tacloban City, June 16, 2025—Philippine authorities on Monday refused to allow the Committee to Protect Journalists and a coalition of press freedom organizations to visit jailed journalist Frenchie...
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#G7 leaders are meeting in #Canada this week. Publisher #JimmyLai will die in prison in #HongKong unless action is taken now. CPJ joins @SupportJimmyLai in asking G7 leaders to work together to #FreeJimmyLai. #G7Kananaskis2025
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French journalist Yanis Mhamdi @yanmdi who was arrested among the Madleen ship activists, told CPJ from the #Israeli Ayalon prison at Ramla, through his Adalah center lawyer, Nariman Shehade Zohbi: "Journalism is Not a Crime,” with a handwritten note. https://t.co/wilVXYsyER
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