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GOVT RECOMMENDS RESSA ACQUITTAL IN CYBER LIBEL CASE
malaya Business Insight
|March 11, 2026
THE Office of the Solicitor General recommended to the Supreme Court the acquittal of Rappler CEO Maria Ressa and former researcher Reynaldo Santos Jr. in the cyber libel case filed by businessman Wilfredo Keng.
In a manifestation filed before the High Court dated March 9, 2026, the OSG invoked its unique mandate as the “People’s Tribune” and said the charges against Ressa and Santos are legally time-barred and that the prosecution's filing of the case has gone beyond the allowable prescriptive period.
Solicitor General Darlene Marie Berberabe cited the 2023 SC ruling on the case of lawyer Berteni Cata-luna Causing vs. People, in which the magistrates ruled to shorten the prescriptive period for cyber libel from 15 years to just one year.
With this, the OSG acknowledged that the criminal information filed against Ressa and Santos in early 2019 arrived far too late since the assailed May 2012 Rappler article was republished in 2014 and discovered by Keng in 2016.
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