{"id":214334,"date":"2019-05-14T05:53:04","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T09:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=214334"},"modified":"2019-05-14T05:53:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T09:53:04","slug":"ressa-arraigned-on-cyber-libel-raps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/05\/14\/ressa-arraigned-on-cyber-libel-raps\/","title":{"rendered":"Ressa arraigned on cyber libel raps"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_207543\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-207543\" style=\"width: 1080px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Maria-Ressa-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-207543\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Maria-Ressa-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"816\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Maria-Ressa-1.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Maria-Ressa-1-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Maria-Ressa-1-768x580.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Maria-Ressa-1-1024x774.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Maria-Ressa-1-20x15.jpg 20w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-207543\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Ressa, along with managing editor Glenda Gloria and five other members of Rappler&#8217;s 2016 board Manuel Ayala, James Bitanga, Nico Jose Nolledo, James Velasquez, and Felicia Atienza, were charged for allegedly violating the Anti-Dummy Law. (File photo: NAIA Media Affairs Division via PNA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; The arraignment of Rappler executive editor and CEO Maria Ressa and writer Reynaldo Santos Jr. for cyber libel proceeded on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>A plea of not guilty on behalf of the two accused was ordered entered into the records by the Manila Regional Trial Court (RTC) after Ressa and Santos declined to enter a plea.<\/p>\n<p>The arraignment proceeded after Judge Rainelda Estacio-Montessa of the Manila RTC Branch 46 refused to dismiss the case.<\/p>\n<p>In its order dated April 12, the court ruled that online publishers could be sued within 12 years of the publication of an allegedly libelous report.<\/p>\n<p>The suit was filed by a businessman named by Rappler as being the owner of a sports utility vehicle (SUV) used by the late Chief Justice Renato Corona, who had been subjected to impeachment proceedings during the last administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The arraignment of Rappler executive editor and CEO Maria Ressa and writer Reynaldo Santos Jr. for cyber libel proceeded &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":207543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-benjamin-pulta","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214334","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214335,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214334\/revisions\/214335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}