MARCO VALBUENA
CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER
COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE PHILIPPINES
JUNE 15, 2020
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) stands in solidarity with journalists, media workers and the rest of the Filipino people, in condemning the conviction earlier today of Rappler chief executive officer Maria Ressa and journalist Reynaldo Santos Jr. over a cyber libel case.
The ruling, handed down by Manila Regional Trial Court Branch 46 Judge Rainelda Estacio-Montesa, clearly serves Duterte’s campaign to intimidate and terrorize Rappler, which has actively exposed the killings and abuses perpetrated under Duterte’s drug campaign.
The conviction is a brazen attack against press freedom. It comes at the heels of the recent shutdown of ABS-CBN broadcast over free airwaves. It forms part of the Duterte regime’s worsening clampdown and intimidation of the media.
The conviction of Ressa and Santos underscores the long-standing demand of journalists to abrogate the “cyber libel” law which puts cross-hairs on journalists, critics and anyone expressing an opinion online. From the start, the Party has opposed the “cyber libel law” and has joined advocates of press freedom to decriminalize libel.
By ordering Ressa’s conviction, Duterte ultimately intends to muffle the voices of journalists who dare criticize and expose his regime’s corruption, ineptness and fascist repression and make them bow to his tyranny.
https://cpp.ph/statement/denounce-ressa-conviction-fight-to-defend-press-freedom/
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) stands in solidarity with journalists, media workers and the rest of the Filipino people, in condemning the conviction earlier today of Rappler chief executive officer Maria Ressa and journalist Reynaldo Santos Jr. over a cyber libel case.
The ruling, handed down by Manila Regional Trial Court Branch 46 Judge Rainelda Estacio-Montesa, clearly serves Duterte’s campaign to intimidate and terrorize Rappler, which has actively exposed the killings and abuses perpetrated under Duterte’s drug campaign.
The conviction is a brazen attack against press freedom. It comes at the heels of the recent shutdown of ABS-CBN broadcast over free airwaves. It forms part of the Duterte regime’s worsening clampdown and intimidation of the media.
The conviction of Ressa and Santos underscores the long-standing demand of journalists to abrogate the “cyber libel” law which puts cross-hairs on journalists, critics and anyone expressing an opinion online. From the start, the Party has opposed the “cyber libel law” and has joined advocates of press freedom to decriminalize libel.
By ordering Ressa’s conviction, Duterte ultimately intends to muffle the voices of journalists who dare criticize and expose his regime’s corruption, ineptness and fascist repression and make them bow to his tyranny.
https://cpp.ph/statement/denounce-ressa-conviction-fight-to-defend-press-freedom/
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