Tag: Jessant So

‘Wag Basta Bira! Jinggoy Hails Critic’s Cyber Libel Conviction

(POLITIKO) Senator Jinggoy Estrada has welcomed the decision of a Quezon City Regional Trial Court convicting a Facebook user who maligned him online. Estrada was referring to the decision of the Quezon city Regional Trial Court Branch 90 which convicted Jessant So of cyber libel for this “libelous, malicious, defamatory, false, misleading, and were intended…
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Estrada critic convicted of cyber libel

(CNN) Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, October 22) — A critic of Senator Jinggoy Estrada was convicted of cyber libel for statements made against the lawmaker in 2020. The case stemmed from a complaint filed by Estrada over Jessant So’s Facebook posts where he described the lawmaker as “magnanakaw, abusado at corrupt na opisyal at isang kandidatong maagang nangangampanya (a thief,…
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On the cyber libel conviction of his critic Jessant So

I welcome the decision of the Quezon City Regional Trial Court Branch 90 finding the accused in my cyber libel complaint, Jessant So, guilty beyond reasonable doubt for seven counts under Section 4(c)(4) of Republic Act No. 10175, otherwise known as the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 and sentenced to suffer the penalty of imprisonment…
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