The Supreme Court reiterated in the recent case of Causing v. People (GR 258524, April 8, 2026) that cyber libel prescribes one year from the time it is discovered. In December 2020, Cotabato Second ...
Nowadays, for better or worse, everyone -- literally, everyone -- can be a publisher. Not because the First Amendment guarantees it, but because the Internet does. You simply create a blog or other ...
Criminal libel is usually associated with countries that lack First Amendment protections, but Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson has decided to use the little-known — and some say ...
Ghana's former President, John Agyekum Kufuor, said that history had vindicated his government for the repeal of the criminal libel laws that were used to jail journalists. (MFWA/IFEX) – On 10 August ...
His Excellency President Julius Maada Bio has told journalists in Freetown that his New Direction Government is at an advanced stage in the repeal of Part V of the 1965 Public Order Act that ...
Libel is “best decriminalized” when it comes to public figures to protect the freedom of speech, Supreme Court Senior ...
(MISA/IFEX) – On 13 July 2001, police in Mpika, in the Northern Province of Zambia, dropped a criminal libel charge they had laid on Ernest Mwape, a freelance journalist, over a story he had written ...
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