UN Special Rapporteur Irene Khan on Monday requested the Supreme Court to permit her to look as amicus curiae within the cyber libel case of Rappler chief government officer Maria Ressa.
According to a press briefer, Khan’s amicus curiae temporary will present the SC with worldwide and regional authorized requirements on freedom of expression, particularly concerning the regulation on defamation.
Khan is supposedly involved that the regulation within the nation fails to guard the fitting to freedom of expression.
“In particular, the Cybercrime Prevention Act raises serious concerns that it limits the ability of journalists to expose, document, and address issues of important public interest, thereby violating the right to receive and impart information,” the briefer learn.
Khan is the UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights to Freedom of Opinion and Expression.
According to the Cornell Law School, an amicus curiae or “friend of the court” will petition a courtroom for permission to submit a quick within the motion desiring to affect a courtroom’s resolution. The briefs are known as “amicus briefs.”
In July 2022, the Court of Appeals upheld the Manila Regional Trial Court’s resolution in 2020 to convict Ressa and former Rappler researcher Rey Santos Jr. of cyber libel.
The CA later denied Ressa and Santos’ attraction of the ruling. —NB, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
