Dominic Roque seemingly aped ex-sweetheart Bea Alonzo recently, filing a cyber libel complaint against veteran showbiz scribe and vlogger Cristy Fermin at the Pasig City Prosecutor's Office.A GMA report said the actor is complaining over what he deemed were "malicious statements and innuendos"...
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Tuesday, December 13 announced she has filed a bill to decriminalize libel, citing how current libel laws have been used and abused to suppress press freedom.
"Our libel laws have been weaponized to stifle very basic fundamental rights. These laws have been used...
The Quezon City Police District (QCPD) said Tuesday, Aug. 9, that former vice-presidential candidate and human rights activist Walden Bello was released from police custody after posting bail for his cyberlibel cases.
Bello, 76, was arrested in his house in Barangay Holy Spirit by members of the...
Defeated vice-presidential candidate Walden Bello was arrested Monday, Aug. 8, by the police for two counts of cyberlibel in Quezon City.
The Quezon City Police District (QCPD) said that Bello, 76, a human rights activist, was arrested in his house in Barangay Holy Spirit at around 5 p.m.
The...
Outgoing Energy Secretary Alfonso G. Cusi has withdrawn the libel and cyber libel suits that he filed against seven media outlets in November last year relating to the controversies linked to the sale of the Malampaya deep water gas-to-power venture to businessman Dennis Uy.
In a statement to...
CEBU CITY – The Pagadian City Regional Trial Court has issued four warrants of arrest against the chief of the Land Transportation Office-Central Visayas (LTO 7) in connection with the four counts of cyber libel filed against him.
Pagadian City RTC Branch 20 Presiding Judge Dennis P. Vicoy...
Lawyer Barry Gutierrez, the spokesman of Vice President Leni Robredo, has filed a cyber libel case against a Manila-based news organization for the supposed intentional publishing of a defamatory news article against him and the Vice President.
Lawyer Barry Gutierrez, the spokesman of Vice...
CEBU CITY -- The Office of the City Prosecutor (OCP) in Mandaue City has affirmed its earlier decision dismissing the cyber libel charges filed by the regional director of the Land Transportation Office-Central Visayas (LTO 7) against the corporate officers and board of directors of five motorcycle...
DAVAO CITY – Vice presidential candidate Walden Bello believes that the cyberlibel complaint filed against him by former Davao City Information Office head Jefry Tupas for making an alleged libelous social media post would be dismissed as it had "hardly any basis in truth and fact."
In a...
ILOILO CITY—An Iloilo City mayoralty candidate and a radio broadcaster was arrested Friday, Feb. 18, for alleged cyber libel charges.
Iloilo City mayoralty candidate Salvador "Jun" Capulot Jr.
Salvador Capulot Jr., more popularly known as "Jun Capulot" was arrested by Jaro station...
The fight's not yet over for Sen. Francis "Kiko" Pangilinan.
After filing filed two separate cyber libel cases last July against YouTube channels "Latest Chika" and "Starlet" for supposedly spreading malicious lies against him, his wife and his children, he is now doing the same against the...
PROMDI Party presidential bet Sen. Manny Pacquiao is contemplating on withdrawing the cyber libel charges he filed against Pastor Apollo Quiboloy to clear the way for the immediate extradition and arrest of the religious leader by the United States government.
Sen. Manny Pacquiao-DZRH
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