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Publishers acquitted, libel charges dismissed

CMFR/Philippines – A court in Cagayan de Oro City acquitted a newspaper publisher from a libel charge last 28 April 2014. Meanwhile, in Metro Manila, the Court of Appeal... Read more

Government official: stop the criticisms or face libel

CMFR/Philippines – Cebu’s provincial legal officer and head of the province’s Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) threatened during a press conference to file a libel complaint against a journalist... Read more

Arrest warrant still out for TV broadcaster accused of libel

CMFR/Philippines – A warrant of arrest is still out for one of two broadcasters accused of libel. Branch 92 of the Quezon City Regional Trial Court in Manila issued... Read more

Radio anchor acquitted of libel

CMFR/Philippines – A court in San Jose town, Occidental Mindoro province, acquitted a radio anchor of a libel charge on 2 June 2014. San Jose is about 400 kilometers south of... Read more

City prosecutor reverses dismissal of libel charges against newspaper

CMFR/Philippines – The city prosecutor’s office of Pasig City, Metro Manila, has reversed the dismissal of libel charges against a weekly newspaper based in Dagupan City, Pangasinan. Dagupan is... Read more

The press in Philippine society

The protection the Constitution extends to press freedom is premised on the assumption that the press has a social duty to discharge to merit that protection. Indeed the Constitution... Read more

Broadcaster files libel suit vs newspaper reporter, editors

CMFR/Philippines – A broadcast journalist filed on March 24 a libel complaint against a reporter and the editors of a broadsheet that published a news report that named him... Read more

A relic of colonial times

By Luis V. Teodoro LIBEL AS a means of repression has been problematic in the Philippines even before the Revised Penal Code (RPC) went into effect in January, 1932. Read more

A relic of colonial rule (Updated)

LIBEL AS a means of repression has been problematic in the Philippines even before the Revised Penal Code (RPC) went into effect in January, 1932. A libel law can be... Read more

Criminal libel is unconstitutional

By Melinda Quintos de Jesus THERE IS a lot to say about the Cybercrime Prevention Act. And a lot more will be said now that the Supreme Court has upheld... Read more