Rappler’s Executive Editor and CEO Maria Ressa and former researcher-writer Reynaldo Santos Jr. have asked the Manila Regional Trial Court to reverse its decision that found them guilty of cyber libel. | T2TupasINQ
Both are allowed to remain free after earlier posting bail.
The court, in its ruling, said that the Cybercrime Prevention Act does not provide for a prescriptive period which means that the law on prescriptions for violations of special laws should apply. Citing the case of Disini vs. Secretary of Justice, they pointed out that the Cybercrime Prevention Act does not define a new offense but simply a new mode of committing libel defined under the Revised Penal Code.
They explained that the Supreme Court has issued a temporary restraining order against the implementation of the law from Oct. 9, 2012 until April 22, 2014, therefore, when the subject story was updated, cyber libel technically does not exist.The motion for reconsideration has raised 13 main arguments delving on the court’s error in appreciating facts, evidence and the law and how Ressa and Santos’ constitutional rights were violated.
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