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A Quezon City Trial Court has convicted Baguio journalist Frank Cimatu of cyber libel over a Facebook post made in 2017. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP), in condemning the use of libel charges to silence critical journalism in the Philippines and urging Filipino authorities to revoke all charges against Cimatu. ....
MANILA: Nobel Peace Prize winner and Rappler CEO Maria Ressa (pic) said Thursday the cyber libel conviction of Baguio-based journalist Frank Cimatu was a freedom of speech issue. ....
Reacting to the prison sentence that Philippine reporter Frank Cimatu has received on a cyber-libel charge for an old Facebook post about possible government corruption, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the proceedings against this journalist to be dropped and, more generally, for the decriminalisation of defamation in the Philippines. ....
Here’s a piece of advice for court judges who hear libel cases filed by government officials against journalists: Read up on jurisprudence concerning libel. ....