Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Wed, 08 May 2019 14:31:07 +0000
Blogger Edward Angelo “Cocoy” Dayao, who was indicted for libel in 2018 in the case earlier filed by Senate President Vicente “Tito” Sotto III, has sent “feelers” to the senator to explain.
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Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 21:38:49 +0000
MANILA, Philippines — The lawyer of Rappler executive editor and CEO Maria Ressa on Tuesday said they would appeal anew to have the cyberlibel charges filed against her quashed, after a Manila Regional Trial Court (RTC) upheld state prosecutors’ argument that the prescriptive period for cyberlibel was 12 years.
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 23:24:03 +0000
Two lawmakers on Monday questioned why the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO), after ignoring international criticism of the killings in President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs, suddenly felt the need to tour Europe to explain the state of press freedom in the Philippines. Reports said the PCOO would hold a “press freedom caravan” to discuss […]
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Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 23:22:14 +0000
The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) on Monday said the government’s persecution of news website Rappler and its CEO, Maria Ressa, underscored the urgent need to decriminalize libel.
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Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2019 21:37:46 +0000
The government has dispatched a “press freedom caravan” to make the European media understand the “real nature” of the cyberlibel case of Rappler chief executive officer Maria Ressa who said the law was being weaponized against critics of President Rodrigo Duterte.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2019 13:56:07 +0000
Rappler chief executive officer Maria Ressa told presidential spokesperson Salvador Panelo in a radio program exchange that the six times she posted bail in a span of just two months were “not regular.”
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2019 10:25:35 +0000
Sen. Richard Gordon on Saturday took issue with the evening arrest of Rappler’s chief executive officer Maria Ressa by National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) agents as the timing did not give Ressa a chance to post bail.
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Read moreCredit to Author: clopez| Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2019 21:30:31 +0000
Maria Ressa, the CEO of online news site Rappler critical of the Duterte administration, was arrested after office hours on Wednesday
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2019 19:54:00 +0000
Broadcast journalist Christiane Amanpour of CNN has called out what she said as a desperate move of the Philippine government as she urged President Rodrigo Duterte to free veteran journalist Maria Ressa.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2019 17:55:45 +0000
The arrest of Rappler chief executive officer Maria Ressa on Wednesday appears to be an action of “a bully government,” according to the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP).
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