EXPLAINER: Supreme Court's clarifications on cyber libel
For one, the SC says the prescription period for cyber libel should be one year, not 12 years
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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.