Press freedom groups demand immediate release of journalist Cumpio after 6 years in detention

Journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio has been detained for nearly six years without conviction on allegedly fabricated weapons charges, with her case raising serious concerns about prolonged pretrial detention and weaponization of the justice system.

In the Philippines, a young journalist named Frenchie Mae Cumpio has spent nearly six years in detention without conviction — arrested at twenty, now approaching twenty-seven — on weapons charges her supporters say were fabricated by the very authorities meant to uphold the law. Her case has drawn a chorus of international voices, from Reporters Without Borders to the Committee to Protect Journalists, who see in her imprisonment not merely a legal dispute but a warning to all who would speak truth in difficult places. As scheduled verdicts approach in late January and early February, her story

Press freedom groups demand immediate release of journalist Cumpio after 6 years in detention

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