Credit 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 11:48:21 +0000
“It’s just unfortunate that she’s a member of the media,” former Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile said on Saturday when asked to comment about the arrest of Rappler chief executive officer Maria Ressa for cyberlibel.
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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: jvicente| Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2019 05:57:49 +0000
Senator Aquilino Pimentel III asked the public not to politicize the issue of Maria Ressa’s cyberlibel charge.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Dennis Maliwanag| Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2019 01:11:50 +0000
Journalist and Rappler CEO Maria Ressa, who was arrested on a libel complaint, accused President Rodrigo Duterte’s administration of acting like a dictatorship and using the law as a weapon to muzzle dissent.
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Read moreCredit to Author: lalos| Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 23:20:10 +0000
President Duterte has distanced himself from the cyberlibel case of Rappler CEO Maria Ressa that had led to her arrest, saying he had nothing to do with it.
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Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 09:25:37 +0000
Embattled Rappler CEO Maria Ressa is “weaponizing” the issue on freedom of expression against the government, Malacañang said on Friday.
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Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 07:51:47 +0000
This was what Wilfredo Keng, the businessman who filed a complaint against Rappler chief executive Maria Ressa, said on Friday amid the uproar on Ressa’s arrest over a cyberlibel charge
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Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 21:34:38 +0000
In a statement issued by his lawyers, businessman Wilfredo Keng said he was “deeply grateful” that Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecutors decided to file the case in court.
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Read moreCredit to Author: clopez| Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 21:32:00 +0000
Ressa was arrested in her Pasig City office late on Wednesday but was ordered freed on P100,000 bail by the Manila Regional Trial Court (RTC) on Thursday morning.
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