A Makati City court on Tuesday junked the second cyber libel suit lodged against Rappler CEO Maria Ressa after complainant Wilfredo Keng sought to dismiss the case.
MANILA (Reuters) - A Philippine court on Tuesday dismissed a cyber libel case against award-winning journalist Maria Ressa, which was one of several lawsuits against her and news site Rappler, which have put President Rodrigo Duterte under tough scrutiny. A second libel case filed late last year by businessman Wilfredo Keng, who had accused Ressa of sharing screenshots of a 2002 news article linking him to crimes, was withdrawn by the complainant. Rappler chief Ressa has said the charges against her were ludicrous. She was convicted in June in an earlier cyber libel case filed by Keng over the same article that Rappler cited in its own story in 2012, a ruling that was widely seen as a blow to media freedom. Ressa faces up to six years in jail but has appealed the ruling. She and Rappler are dealing with several other cases, including alleged tax offences and violation of foreign ownership rules in media. I m glad to hear good news. I look forward to seeing the rest of the cases against
Judge Andres Soriano of the Manila Regional Trial Court dismissed the case ‘with prejudice’ today after the plaintiff - controversial businessman Wilfredo Keng - withdrew his complaint, rendering the State’s case against Maria Ressa futile.
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