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May 10, 2007
This statement was distributed during the activity last May 3 at the Boy
Scout Circle in Quezon City.
On the Withdrawal
by Mr. Jose Miguel Arroyo of His Multiple Libel Suits Against 46 Journalists
Quezon City, 03 May 2007
It is good that Mr. Jose Miguel Arroyo has taken the time to reflect on
the folly of setting the ignominious record in the wholesale filing of
libel suits to harass the media.
But all credit for the withdrawal of the cases should go to the valiant Philippine press and to the sued journalists who refused to be cowed.
We now challenge Mr. Arroyo's wife, the President, to declare urgent
the passage of a law decriminalizing the obsolete libel law to prevent
a recurrence of a similarly brazen and ham-fisted and, ultimately, futile
attempt to harass the media. ###