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Former Senator
Antonio Trillanes has plans for year 2020 as he asked for help from netizens to
gather screenshot of bashers who support President Rodrigo Duterte.
Trillanes
said he would file a cyber libel complaint against the allies of the President
who targets the opposition.
“Patulong
po sa pag save ng mga screenshots ng mga libelous statements ng mga makaduterte
laban sa mga oposisyon o kritiko ng duterte administration,” Trillanes said in
a tweet.
“Magfa-file
po tayo ng cyberlibel sa mga ito sa 2022,” the former lawmaker said.
Trillanes
has announced his plan after Rappler CEO Maria Ressa was convicted for cyber
libel by a Manila court along with a former researcher Reynaldo Santos, Jr.
For some personalities
and supporters of Rappler, the conviction of Ressa has been a blow to press freedom.
The cyber
libel case that led to Ressa’s conviction rooted from a complaint filed a businessman
named Wilfredo Keng who was described as “shady” in an article published by
Rappler.
In his
libel case, Keng disputed parts of the article that linked him to involvement
in illegal activities, namely human trafficking and drug smuggling, citing an
intelligence report.
Cyber libel
is the same offense as libel defined under Article 355 of the Revised Penal
Code, but committed through a computer system. The High Tribunal, in 2014,
ruled that cyber libel was constitutional.
Aside from
the said case, Ressa and Rappler are tangled in a string of legal suits, which
also includes tax evasion charges filed by the government.
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