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(Eagle News)—Vice President Leni Robredo has slammed the arrest of Rappler’s chief executive officer and executive editor Maria Ressa for cyber libel, calling it an affront to press freedom. “Dine-denounce natin in the strongest terms, na sa panahon ngayon, iyong political harassment dahil sa pagpapahayag ng saloobin, dahil sa pagpapahayag ng pangongontra sa ibang mga polisiya, nagiging dahilan para supilin iyong freedom, hindi lang ng members ng media, pero ng mga tao na naglalakas ng […]
(Eagle News) — Rappler’s Maria Ressa on Wednesday, Feb. 13, maintained her arrest for cyberlibel was only part of the government’s efforts to silence media critical of the administration, an allegation the Palace has vehemently denied. “We are not intimidated,” she said. According to Ressa, “these legal acrobatics show how far the government will go to silence journalists, including the pettiness of forcing me to spend the night in jail.” She was apparently referring to […]
(Eagle News) – Rappler’s CEO Maria Ressa was served an arrest warrant late Wednesday afternoon by the National Bureau of Investigation agents for a cyber libel case. Rappler, in a tweet, said that the NBI agents served the arrest warrant at around 5 p.m. Rappler also tweeted that they were prevented by the NBI agents from taking a video while the arrest warrant was being served. Chay Hofilena, head of Rappler’s Investigative Desk, said that […]
(Eagle News) — Actress Kris Aquino on Thursday, Nov. 22, filed cyberlibel charges against the brother of her former business partner, whom she has sued for allegedly stealing from her. Aquino filed the nine counts of cyberlibel against lawyer Jesus Falcis before the Department of Justice. Jesus is the brother of Nicardo Falcis II, who faces 44 counts of qualified theft for allegedly using the company credit card of Kristina Aquino Productions for his personal […]
(Eagle News)–Former actress Keanna Reeves was arrested for cyberlibel on Monday, Nov. 12. Reeves, whose real name is Janet Derecho Duterte, was arrested past noon in Quezon City by virtue of a warrant of arrest issued by Judge Maria Florencia Formes-Baculo of Laguna Regional Trial Court Branch 34. Earlier, one Nancy Dimaranan filed charges of cyberlibel against the former actress, who reportedly hurled insults online against the owner of a food park in Laguna where Reeves […]
(Eagle News)–The Pasay City Prosecutors Office has approved the filing of a libel case against Thinking Pinoy blogger RJ Nieto. This was after Associate Prosecution lawyer Honey Rose Delgado found the elements of libel under the Cybercrime Prevention Act were present in the post written by Nieto on Facebook in Oct. 2017, as alleged by Senator Antonio Trillanes IV. In the post, Nieto quoted US President Donald Trump as saying Trillanes was a “narco,” which […]
