By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA – The recent conviction of Rappler CEO Maria Ressa and former reporter-researcher Reynaldo Santos Jr. brought to the fore cyber libel as a weapon against journalists. Republic Act No. 10175 or the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 penalizes cyber libel. Press freedom advocates, digital rights activists and human…
Days after the Far Eastern University (FEU) prompted its students to strengthen security on all public accounts due to the online attack on government dissenters through proliferation of impostor Facebook profiles, the community was shaken by yet another digital strike by a group of hackers which leaked students’ personal information. At 11:27PM of June 16,…
FILE PHOTO: Benedictine nun Mary John Mananzan hits historical revisionism being espoused by Marcoses and their supporters. (Photo by Ronalyn V. Olea/Bulatlat) By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA — A women’s group has assailed presidential communications official Lorraine Badoy for red-tagging Benedictine nun Sr. Mary John Mananzan, a staunch human rights defender and women’s…
Thousands of small public utility jeepney (PUJ) drivers have lost as much as Php78,000 each from three months of mass transport suspensions since the lockdown. The government has been insensitive and stingy assistance has pushed jeepney drivers and their families into poverty, said the group. Their troubles risk becoming permanent with the government exploiting the…
Red-tagging is not new. Administrations even before President Rodrigo Duterte red-tagged legal organizations, progressive party-lists, churches, church people organizations, journalists, human rights defenders and activists. The only difference at present time is the intensification and massive scale the government engages in red-tagging. The National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) that Duterte…
The situation in jail, according to transport group Piston “gave the jeepney drivers higher risks of contracting the coronavirus disease.” By AARON MACARAEG Bulatlat.com MANILA– Two of the six jeepney drivers arrested and detained for seven to eight days tested positive for coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Caloocan City 2nd District Representative Egay Erice broke the news…
A day after Independence Day when protests were held in different areas in the country against the anti-terrorism bill, two Lumad students and their father Mongkel Tacalan, 66, was reported last seen accompanied by four police officers in Barangay Kisante, Makilala in North Cotabato. Save Our Schools (SOS) Network announced on June 17 that media…