Credit to Author: hniitsu| Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2019 04:18:47 +0000
The Manila Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 46 has denied the bid of Rappler CEO Maria Ressa to dismiss the cyberlibel case filed by businessman Wilfredo Keng, saying it is still within the 12 year prescriptive period.
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Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2019 06:50:21 +0000
The Manila Regional Trial Court has deferred the arraignment of Rappler CEO Maria Ressa and co-accused former reporter Reynaldo Santos.
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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 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: 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: 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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Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 15:12:58 +0000
SAN JOSE DEL MONTE CITY, Philippines — President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday denied that he knows the businessman who filed a cyberlibel case against Rappler Chief Executive Officer Maria Ressa.
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