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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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...
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...