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HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Hong Kong has plummeted down an international press freedom chart as authorities have wielded a draconian new security law to silence critical news outlets and jail journalists, a new report said on Tuesday. For two decades, media rights watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has ranked countries and territories around the world by how free their press is. Hong Kong, a regional hub for both international and local media, has […]
Roque stresses press freedom “alive and well” in PHL, quotes National Artist F Sionil Jose (Eagle News) – Malacanang congratulated Filipina journalist Maria Ressa for being the first Filipino to win a Nobel prize but insists press freedom is alive and well in the Philippines. In a Malacanang press briefing, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque also said that Ressa, CEO of the online site Rappler, would also have to face her criminal cases in the […]
(Eagle News) – Members of the European Parliament expressed alarm about what they claimed was a “deteriorating level of press freedom in the Philippines” and called on the Philippine government to “renew” the franchise of ABS-CBN, as well as to drop all charges against Rappler CEO Maria Ressa. This was contained as part of the resolution of the European Parliament which is composed of 705 members, The text of the resolution which also expressed […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte has signed a law declaring July 25 as National Campus Press Freedom Day. In signing Republic Act No. 11440, Duterte noted that it is the State’s policy to “promote, protect, and safeguard the constitutionally guaranteed right to freedom of expression, speech and of the press.” “As part of the media, the campus press is an important institution in promoting and protecting the freedom of the press and the freedom of expression,” […]
(Eagle News) — The Palace on Friday, March 29, urged Rappler’s chief executive officer Maria Ressa to stop using press freedom as an excuse to attack the administration and to just defend herself in court. Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo issued the statement after Ressa called her arrest for the charge of violation of the Anti-Dummy Law a type of “harassment.” “She’s charged of a crime and there is a determination of probable cause hence a […]
(Eagle News)–Below is a copy of the Department of Justice resolution that ordered the indictment of Rappler Inc., Rappler’s executive editor and chief executive officer Maria Ressa and Rappler’s former reporter Reynaldo Santos for cyber libel. The cyber libel complaints filed before the Manila Regional Trial Court Branch 46 became the basis for the issuance of warrants of arrest against Ressa and Santos.
(Eagle News) — The Department of Justice on Thursday, Feb. 14, slammed “irresponsible” claims the arrest of Rappler’s Maria Ressa constituted an attack on press freedom. According to Undersecretary Markk Perete, who is also the DOJ spokesperson, Ressa was in the first place arrested and faces prosecution for libel. “Certainly, the freedoms of the press, of speech, and of expression do not give any person–whether a journalist, a blogger, or any person of whatever occupation–the […]
(Eagle News) — The camp of the businessman who filed the cyber libel charges against Rappler’s Maria Ressa on Thursday, Feb. 14, said her arrest was merely part of the “judicial process” and was not at all government oppression as claimed by others. In an interview over radio dzbb, Atty. Joseph Banguis, Wilfredo Keng’s lawyer, said in the first place, the charges were filed by a private person who was “defamed” by the article published […]
Adds “relevant parties” should observe sub judice rule and “refrain from making unnecessary pronouncements through media” (Eagle News) — The act of converting Omidyar Network’s $1.5-million investment in Rappler into a donation should be coursed through the Court of Appeals, the Securities and Exchange Commission said on Thursday. In a statement posted on its website, the SEC said this was because its decision to revoke Rappler’s license to operate on the basis it violated constitutional […]
(Eagle News) – Malacanang said that the donation of a US-based investment firm to controversial online news site Rappler of its investments amounting to $1.5 million would “not remove the fact that Rappler breached the Constitution.” In a statement, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said this “act” by Omidyar Network in donating the Philippine Depository Receipts (PDRs) that Rappler had earlier issued to the foreign firm was “nothing but a circumvention of the law.” He […]
(Eagle News) – The foreign investor group Omidyar Network announced on Wednesday that it “has donated the Philippine Depository Receipts it held to 14 managers of Rappler Inc.,” led by its chief executive officer Maria Ressa. This was to address what the US-based Omidyar claimed was an “unwarranted ruling made by the Philippines Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) against Rappler, Inc., and Rappler Holdings Corporation.” The Omidyar Network’s investments in Rappler are said to […]
(Eagle News) — The Rappler case does not involve the issue of press freedom. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque on Friday said that allegations that it involved such were therefore merely “fake news.” “(It’s) about avarice for money that violates the (Constitution) and the laws of the land,” he said. Roque noted that the decision to revoke Rappler’s registration was made by the Securities and Exchange Commission “manned by (former President Noynoy) Aquino appointees.” “(I will give) […]
