In the digital age, anyone with a connection to the Internet can make themselves a writer, a poet, a commenter...or a critic. The language can be harsh, and the treatment rough. And writers can do ...

CYBER LIBEL COMPLAINT. Senator Risa Hontiveros (center) files a cyber libel complaint against seven individuals before the ...

Cyber libel moreover has a 15-year prescription period due to the higher penalty, against one year for traditional libel. The real situation though is that the Marcos government, ...

Philippine police on Monday arrested Walden Bello, a 76-year-old social activist, academic, and former congressman, at his home in Quezon City on charges of cyber-libel. The arrest was based on ...

“It pointed out that because cyber libel is penalized by RA 10175, which does not provide a prescriptive period for the said crime, the period must be determined based on Section 1 of Act No ...

Most recently, Ressa and Rappler colleague Reynaldo Santos Jr. were convicted of “cyber libel,” a decision that many critics condemned as a blow to press freedom, on June 15. Ressa is appealing the ...

A Philippine court has dismissed a libel case against Maria Ressa, a lawyer said on Thursday, one of several lawsuits filed against the journalist who says she has been targeted because of her ...

A Philippine court has dismissed a libel case against Maria Ressa, a lawyer said on Thursday, one of several lawsuits filed against the journalist who says she has been targeted because of her ...