{"id":165399,"date":"2018-05-29T06:11:33","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T10:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=165399"},"modified":"2018-05-29T06:11:33","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T10:11:33","slug":"libel-complaint-progression-detains-mon-tulfo-inquirer-editors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/05\/29\/libel-complaint-progression-detains-mon-tulfo-inquirer-editors\/","title":{"rendered":"Libel complaint progression detains Mon Tulfo, Inquirer editors"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_165409\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-165409\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/33864867_371589293352143_4452678142921801728_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-165409\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/33864867_371589293352143_4452678142921801728_n.jpg\" alt=\"\u201cWhile our bail bonds were being processed, we were fingerprinted like all ordinary accused. Like ordinary crime suspects, our mug shots were also taken,\u201d Tulfo wrote. (Photo: Ramon Tulfo\/Facebook)\" width=\"540\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/33864867_371589293352143_4452678142921801728_n.jpg 540w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/33864867_371589293352143_4452678142921801728_n-169x300.jpg 169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-165409\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cWhile our bail bonds were being processed, we were fingerprinted like all ordinary accused. Like ordinary crime suspects, our mug shots were also taken,\u201d Tulfo wrote. (<a href=\"https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/isumbongmo.kaytulfo.56\/posts\/371589310018808\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/isumbongmo.kaytulfo.56\">Ramon Tulfo\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ramon &#8220;Mon&#8221; Tulfo along with three of the top editors of the Philippine Daily Inquirer (PDI) were detained for six hours on May 28, Monday because of a libel complaint by a \u201cvery influential church group.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tulfo, in a Facebook post laid out all the details of the said detention of PDI\u2019s Executive Editor Jose Ma. Nolasco, Opinion Editor Rosario \u201cChato\u201d Garcellano, Associated Editor Pergentino Bandayrel, Jr., and himself in the Makati Police station.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile our bail bonds were being processed, we were fingerprinted like all ordinary accused. Like ordinary crime suspects, our mug shots were also taken,\u201d Tulfo wrote.<\/p>\n<p>He added that Garcellano was \u201con the verge of tears\u201d while the mug shots were being taken.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was the first time the Inquirer editors were placed in such a tight \u2013 nay, humiliating \u2013 situation,\u201d Tulfo further wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The libel complaint is only one of the \u201cover 90 libel cases\u201d that were filed against Tulfo and the Inquirer editors \u2013 which rooted from a column he wrote for PDI.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn March 4, 2017, I wrote in my column, On Target, that the Iglesia ni Cristo\u2019s (INC\u2019s) compound in Quezon City was raided by the police which confiscated many firearms. I said that the compound, which was equivalent to the Catholic Church\u2019s Vatican, was considered \u2018holy ground\u2019 by the sect,\u201d he said in his Facebook post.<\/p>\n<p>He also wrote that most of the libel cases were already dismissed by various prosecutor\u2019s (formerly fiscal\u2019s) offices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn short, those prosecutor\u2019s offices which dismissed the case thought my statement did not constitute libel. However, at least three cases have been filed in court: In Tagum, Davao del Norte; Dasmarinas, Cavite; and Bacoor, Cavite,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>With this, Tulfo said that they expect more libel cases to be filed in court in other places from the same column.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ramon &#8220;Mon&#8221; Tulfo along with three of the top editors of the Philippine Daily Inquirer (PDI) were detained for six &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":165409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[51420,51422,43359,51419,51421],"class_list":["post-165399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-jose-ma-nolasco","tag-pergentino-bandayrel-jr","tag-philippine-daily-inquirer","tag-ramon-tulfo","tag-rosario-chato-garcellano","mauthors-bea-kirstein-t-manalaysay","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165399","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=165399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}