CHR supports legislative initiatives to decriminalize libel and cyberlibel
The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) calls on Congress to act decisively in advancing measures that seek to decriminalize libel and cyberlibel, emphasizing that prison penalties for defamation have long undermined freedom of expression, weakened press freedom, and enabled legal harassment against journalists, activists, and ordinary citizens. In a Human Rights Advisory, the CHR stresses […]
Statement of the Commission on Human Rights on the cyber libel conviction of journalist Frank Cimatu, and Senate Bill No. 1593, decriminalizing libel
The Commission on Human Rights expresses its concern on how cyber libel has been recently used to suppress press freedom and threaten the right to free expression. The conviction of journalist Frank Cimatu for his social media post five years ago against then-Secretary of Agriculture Emmanuel Piñol is the most recent case of a pattern […]