In the sixth case of its kind this year, two men riding tandem on a motorcycle shot dead a radio commentator in Iligan City on 29 August 2013. Iligan City in Mindanao Island is some 1,400 kilometers south of Manila.
Filipino radio commentator Fernando "Nanding" Solijon was shot dead last week, the fourth journalist to be murdered in the Philippines in the past month.
Two men on a motorcycle shot Solijon, who broadcast on DxLS Love Radio of Iligan City, in Lanao del Norte, a province of the northern Mindanao region, while he was walking to his car after having dinner with a friend on 29 August.
During his radio programme, Solijon frequently criticised local politicians. And past reports included accusations about officials being involved in the drug trade.
At least three other journalists have been killed in the Philippines over the past month. On 30 July, newspaper columnists Richard Kho and Bonifacio Loreto were shot and killed by motorcycle-riding assailants in Manila.
On 1 August, freelance photographer Mario Sy was shot and killed by a gunman who entered his home in southern General Santos City.
Shawn Crispin, a representative of the press freedom watchdog, the Committee to Protect Journalists, said: "How many more journalists must be killed before President Benigno Aquino makes a genuine commitment to ending the cycle of impunity in media murders in the Philippines?"
At least 73 Filipino journalists have been killed in direct connection to their work since 1992, making the Philippines the second deadliest country in the world for the press.
