September 2008 alerts Archives | CMFR

• Journalists’ suit against president’s husband to proceed

  CMFR/Philippines—The Court of Appeals has denied a motion by the husband of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to quash the case, filed against him by journalists in response to his... Read more

• High Court upholds guilty verdict against columnist

  CMFR/PHILIPPINES – The Supreme Court of the Philippines on 16 September 2008 affirmed the guilty verdict on a 1999 libel case filed by a customs official against a columnist,... Read more

• Publisher jailed for libel, libel conviction of another affirmed

  CMFR/Philippines—The publisher of a daily newspaper in Manila was arrested on 4 September 2008 for libel, while another newspaper publisher’s libel conviction was affirmed after a judge denied her... Read more