MANILA - A judges' group on Monday called out "abusive attacks" against courts, judges and the judiciary following criticisms over Maria Ressa's conviction by a Manila court last week.
MANILA - A judges' group on Monday called out "abusive attacks" against courts, judges and the judiciary following criticisms over Maria Ressa's conviction by a Manila court last week.
The statement did not mention the June 15 ruling by Judge Rainelda Estacio-Montesa of Manila Regional Trial Court Branch 46, convicting Ressa and former Rappler researcher Reynaldo Santos Jr. of cyber over a 2012 article involving property developer Wilfredo Keng. Photos of Estacio-Montesa surfaced online a few hours after the release of the ruling, with some posts portraying her as a "villain of democracy." Some social media users balked at her use of a quote from Nelson Mandela to convict Ressa.
"Everyone is reminded that personal attacks, criticisms laden with political threats, those that misrepresent and distort the nature and context of judicial decisions, those that are misleading or without factual or legal basis, and those that blame the judges for the ills of society, damage the integrity of the judiciary and threaten the doctrine of judicial independence," its statement said.
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