{"id":146627,"date":"2018-01-16T03:56:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T08:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=146627"},"modified":"2018-01-16T03:56:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T08:56:00","slug":"hrw-de-lima-slam-sec-over-rapplers-license-revocation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/16\/hrw-de-lima-slam-sec-over-rapplers-license-revocation\/","title":{"rendered":"HRW, De Lima slam SEC over Rappler’s license revocation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Senator Leila De Lima (Photo<\/a>: Senate of the Philippines\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

International rights group Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday said that the order of the\u00a0Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to shut down the Philippine-based online site Rappler Inc.\u00a0is \u201cnothing less than a politicized attack.”<\/p>\n

\u201cIf Duterte succeeds in silencing Rappler, it will have a profound chilling effect on Philippine media at a time when free press is more urgently needed than ever,\u201d HRW Asia Division Deputy Director Phelim Kline said in a statement Monday.<\/p>\n

HRW who is a vocal critic of the Duterte administration believed that the move of the government was “a sinister use of state regulatory processes to stifle critical media voices.”<\/p>\n

\u2018Timing of the decision is held suspect\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Opposition detained Senator Leila De Lima said in a statement that the decision is a part of the trend of government assaults on institutions vital to the country\u2019s democracy.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an alarm that signals State repression of the freedom of the press, unwittingly started by an otherwise apolitical government institution that has all but ignored the repercussions of its decision on constitutional liberties, instead seeing the matter as a purely technical issue on corporate control and ownership,\u201d De Lima said.<\/p>\n

The constitution says it all<\/strong><\/p>\n

However, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque denied on Monday the accusations that the Duterte administration has participated with the license revocation of the Philippine-based online site Rappler Inc.<\/p>\n

Roque, in an interview over DZMM, defended that those allegations were false claims, he said that the administration has nothing to do with it and the decision was solely from the en banc commission. He added that the constitution itself stated that any ownership of mass media shall be limited to citizens of the Philippines.<\/p>\n

\u201cWala pong katotohanan \u2018yan dahil ang Saligang Batas naman po ang nagsabi na hindi pupuwede na mag-ari ang mga dayuhan kahit isang<\/em>\u00a0share of stocks\u00a0sa isang negosyo ng<\/em>\u00a0mass media.\u00a0Kinakailangan \u2018yan na<\/em>\u00a0100% Filipino [It is not true because the constitution itself stated that those foreign companies cannot own even one share of stocks in a mass media business. It has to be 100% Filipino],\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, January 11, the commission en banc said that Rappler Inc. and its parent Rappler Holdings Corp. violated the Foreign Equity Restriction in Article XVI, Section 11(1) of the Constitution which states, \u201cThe ownership and management of mass media shall be limited to citizens of the Philippines, or to corporations, cooperatives or associations, wholly-owned and managed by such citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

International rights group Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday said that the order of the\u00a0Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":137503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,483],"tags":[29394,43457,43458,34571],"class_list":["post-146627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","category-politics","tag-detained-senator-leila-de-lima","tag-international-rights-group-human-rights-watch-hrw","tag-philippine-based-online-site-rappler-inc","tag-securities-and-exchange-commission-sec","mauthors-michealina-vallarta-david","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}