Cyber Libel News Today

For one, the SC says the prescription period for cyber libel should be one year, not 12 years

A KNOWN critic of Cebu Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia, Dr. Rowena Burden, was again indicted on five more counts of cyber libel for alleged “malicious” statements against the governor.

THE Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP)-Cebu City Chapter has filed a cyber libel complaint against a private individual over a viral Facebook post allegedly tainting the reputation of the lawyer’s organization.

The journalist has an appeal against a cyber libel conviction pending in the top court.

Rappler CEO, Nobel Laureate and veteran journalist Maria Ressa has been acquitted of ‘politically motivated’ tax evasion charges at the Court of Tax Appeals. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP), in welcoming this victory for press freedom in the Philippines and calling for all remaining charges against Ressa to be dropped immediately.

The Bulacan police arrested four wanted persons and six drug suspects in a series of intensified anti-crime operations in Bulacan on Saturday, Jan. 7, and Sunday, Jan. 8. Col. Relly B. Arnedo, Bulacan police director, said the joint manhunt operation conducted by the City of San Jose Del Monte (CS

In a statement Wednesday, the CHR stressed that the Philippine government, as a State party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), has the obligation to protect people’s rights to freedom of opinion and expression.

A Quezon City Trial Court has convicted Baguio journalist Frank Cimatu of cyber libel over a Facebook post made in 2017. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP), in condemning the use of libel charges to silence critical journalism in the Philippines and urging Filipino authorities to revoke all charges against Cimatu.

Baguio-based journalist convicted over cyber libel

Sen. Risa Hontiveros has filed a bill seeking the decriminalization of libel as she argued that the country’s libel laws have been used and abused to clamp down on the freedom of the press.