Rappler founder and chief executive officer Maria Ressa has been found guilty Monday (June 15) of cyber libel over a 2012 article accusing a businessman of involvement in human trafficking and drug smuggling.
Former Rappler researcher Reynaldo Santos Jr., who wrote the article, was also found guilty by a Manila court.
Ressa’s lawyer, Theodore Te, said the Rappler CEO and Santos have been allowed to post bail.
Businessman Wilfredo Keng sued Ressa and Santos for cyberlibel over a May 2012 article that he supposedly allowed former chief justice Renato Corona to use his SUV, and he was allegedly involved in human trafficking and drug smuggling.
Citing the multiple publication rule, government prosecutors indicted Ressa, and Santos because the article, though it was published in 2012, was republished on February 2014, which means it is covered by the cyber libel law.
Source: Latest Politics News Today (Politics.com.ph)
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