Feb. 18, 2019The government’s persecution of Maria Ressa and Rappler, the latest of which is the Department of Justice’s brazen perversion of the law to allow their prosecution for cyber libel, underscores the urgent need to decriminalize the offense.It is bad enough...
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Philstar takedown: The chilling effect of government’s perversion of the law
Feb. 17, 2019 The decision of Philstar.com to take down the 2002 article "Influential businessman eyed in ex-councilor's slay" is an inevitable consequence of this government’s, through the Department of Justice and the National Bureau of Investigation, twisting the...
Arrest of Maria Ressa is persecution by a bully government
Feb. 13, 2019 The arrest Rappler CEO Maria Ressa on the clearly manipulated charge of cyber libel is a shameless act of persecution by a bully government. It is clear that the Department of Justice perverted the law by charging Maria for an offense allegedly committed...
DDoS attacks on alternative news sites meant to stifle criticism, dissent
Feb. 6, 2019 For more than half a month now, the alternative news website Bulatlat has been subjected to distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks aimed at bringing it down. The first series of attacks lasted from January 19 to 31. The second wave came on February...
Rappler cyberlibel indictment endangers freedom of the press, expression
It is extremely unfortunate, though not surprising, that the Department of Justice has approved the filing of a cyber libel case against Rappler and its CEO Maria Ressa and former researcher Reynaldo Santos Jr. While we are confident that Rappler can competently...
NUJP slams House reso restricting access to SALN
Feb. 2, 2019 The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines protests House Resolution 2467, which will require majority consent before lawmakers’ statements of assets, liabilities and net worth can be accessed. We find it ironic that a document meant to help...
Eight years after, justice remains elusive for Doc Gerry Ortega
Jan. 24, 2019 On this day eight years ago, environmentalist, good governance advocate and broadcaster Gerardo "Doc Gerry" Ortega was shot dead in an ukay-ukay shop in Puerto Princesa City, Palawan.Eight years after, justice remains elusive for Doc Gerry and his...
NUJP: PNA fake news proves gov’t hand in red-tagging
Jan. 9, 2019 When a number of tabloids came out on January 7 with totally false banner stories on the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines’ supposed links to the Communist Party of the Philippines, we held back from voicing our suspicions of who was behind...
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[Statement] NUJP denounces ‘CPP-NPA-NDF’ tag
January 7, 2019 The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines denounces continued efforts to link us to the communist revolutionary movement, which we see as part of an orchestrated effort to intimidate us into silence.On Monday, January 7, NUJP officers found...