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A Filipino journalist was killed by Balles on Wednesday December 8 in the Philippines on Wednesday, the last of a long list of press professionals murdered in this country, announced the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP).

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Jesus Malabanan was killed in Calbayog City in the province of Samar (Center), according to a statement from the organization published on his Facebook page.He was a standard Manila correspondent in the Central Luçon region, north of Manila, the newspaper told AFP, confirming the journalist's death.

He also worked as Stringer for the International Press Agency Reuters.The agency declared itself "deeply saddened" by the death of Jesus Malabanan, who worked on his coverage of the war against drugs in 2017 in the Philippines having earned him the Pulitzer Prize.The branch of the Nujp of the Province of Pampanga, located on the island of Luçon, condemned this "absurd assassination".

Calbayog police refused to provide details.The Philippines are one of the most dangerous places in the world for journalists, and most of their assassins remain unpunished.At the end of October, Orlando Dinoy, reporter for the online site Newsline Philippines and presenter on Energy FM, had been killed by six balls by an armed man who had burst into his apartment in Bansalan, on the island of Mindanao.

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He was the 21st journalist killed since the coming to power of President Rodrigo Duterte in 2016, said the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines.In a report published in October before these last two murders, the Committee for the Protection of Journalists, based in New York, ranked the Philippines in seventh place on its world impunity index, created in 2008, with 13 murders of journalistsnot elucidated.

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