#Ca sample motion for reconsideration trial
whereas the Manila Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 46 issued arrest warrants for Ressa and Santos in February 2019 whereas a series of bail orders, motions and counter-suits follow the highly disputed and multiple arrests of both Ressa and Santos whereas 23 June 2019 the trial commences, resulting in the conviction of Ressa whereas on 22 February 2018, the NBI cybercrime released a statement that it had found that the one-year prescriptive period for libel had already lapsed, affirming the content of the counter-affidavits submitted by Maria Ressa and her colleague and co-author Reynaldo Santos whereas on 2 March 2018, the NBI retracts its dismissal of the charges, which is followed by a recommendation of the Justice department to file charges against Ressa and Santos in January 2019 whereas several other legal actions have been filed against Ressa since January 2018, including alleged violations of laws barring foreign ownership of media and tax evasion charges į.
whereas the case against Rappler founder and journalist, Maria Ressa, a citizen of both the United States and the Philippines, started in 2012 and is part of a broader strategy to silence opponents or humiliate opponents of Duterte, seeking to ensure the unchallenged continuity of the current government Į. whereas since President Rodrigo Duterte has launched in 2016 his so-called “war on drugs”, he has widened it to include critics, journalists, human rights groups, and political opponents seeking to expose abuses and more than 248 human rights defenders, lawyers, journalists and trade unionists were killed between 20 whereas President Duterte has repeatedly threatened to seek stronger relations with countries such as Russia and China, which have not criticised his actions ĭ. whereas human rights defenders, journalists, and activists routinely face threats, harassment, intimidation, and violence for seeking to expose allegations of extra-judicial killings and other human rights abuses in the Philippines Ĭ. whereas the long-standing court-case against prominent news site “Rappler” founder and journalist Maria Ressa has become the epitome in the battle for media freedom in the Philippines whereas among the wave of new outlets targeted by the Duterte government, in particular Rappler, one of the last remaining independent media outlets known for its hard-hitting investigations and ABS-CBN have been subject to particularly harsh and relentless attacks seeking to limit their influence ī. having regard to Rule 144 of its Rules of Procedure Ī. having regard to the statement by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights of 30 June 2020 having regard to the statement by the European External Action Service of 16 June 2020 regarding the conviction of Maria Ressa and Reynaldo Santos having regard to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court having regard to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 having regard to the Charter of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), which entered into force on 15 December 2008 and to which the Philippines is party having regard to the Framework Agreement on Partnership and Cooperation between the European Union and its Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of the Philippines, of the other part having regard to its previous resolutions on the situation in the Philippines, including those of 19 April 2018, 15 March 2017 and 15 September 2016 NB: This motion for a resolution is available in the original language only.Įuropean Parliament resolution on the situation in the Philippines, including the case of Maria Ressa Anna Fotyga, Karol Karski, Assita Kanko, Witold Jan Waszczykowski, Ryszard Czarnecki, Alexandr Vondra, Bogdan Rzońca, Valdemar Tomaševski, Elżbieta Kruk, Angel Dzhambazki, Emmanouil Fragkos on the situation in the Philippines, including the case of Maria Ressa pursuant to Rule 144 of the Rules of Procedure With request for inclusion in the agenda for a debate on cases of breaches of human rights, democracy and the rule of law
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