Philippines columnist gets death threat

A newspaper columnist critical of the Philippines government has received an emailed death threat. The message to Ellen Tordesillas, who writes for two daily papers, Malaya and Abante, read: "Beware when you go out because I will have you abducted, and to stop your foul mouth I will make you eat barbed wire and swallow it whole..." Three days ago she wrote a column entitled about the government's barbed-wire mentality. (Via IFEX)