MANILA, Philippines — Two journalists in Camarines Norte were jailed for six hours on Tuesday over a cyber libel case filed against them by Camarines Norte Gov. ADVERTISEMENTNUJP said Avila was the first to be detained after police served an arrest warrant issued by Judge Ivan Dizon of the Regional Trial Court Branch 40 for the cyber libel case. [Alert] Journalists in Camarines Norte arrested over cyber libel rapsCamarines Norte journalists Virgilio “Bagwis”… Posted by National Union of Journalists of the Philippines on Tuesday, November 10, 2020Deo Trinidad, another journalist in the cyber libel complaint, was not detained after he surrendered himself to the Regional Trial Court Branch 40 and posted bail of P20,000. The three journalists faced four counts of cyber libel with bail set for P80,000, NUJP said. ADVERTISEMENTConcordia explained that their bail was reduced after their three other cyber libel cases were dismissed by the court.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer November 11, 2020 01:18 UTC