TODO depensa ngayon ang international lawyer na si Amal Clooney sa convicted CEO ng Rappler na si Maria Ressa.
Si Clooney, na maybahay ng Hollywood actor na si George Clooney ay abogada ni Ressa.
Apela niya sa Supreme Court na sana’y itaguyod ng BBM administration ang press freedom sa bansa.
Para din kay Clooney, hindi kinukulong kundi dapat ipinagmamalaki si Ressa na isang Nobel Laureate.
“Maria Ressa became the first Filipino Nobel Laureate in recognition of her work. She should be celebrated—not thrown in jail—for it,” ayon kay Amal Clooney, barrister / human rights activist.
“I hope that the new Marcos administration will show the world that it is strong enough to withstand scrutiny and allow a free press,” ayon pa kay Clooney.
Ngunit para kay Pastor Apollo C. Quiboloy, nalilinlang lamang si Clooney sa pagtatanggol kay Ressa.
“She is deceiving you. She is misinforming you. If you want to really know the truth, and I know you are a lawyer and you know the cases that are filed against an individual in a court of law, you please come to the Philippines, I am inviting you, and get all the facts first about what Maria Ressa did why she was accused and convicted of a cyber libel crime,” ayon kay Rev. Dr. Pastor Apollo C. Quiboloy.
Ipinaliwanag naman ni Pastor Apollo kung saan nag-ugat ang cyber libel conviction ni Ressa.
“She is the misinformer. She puts biases, biased news and she claims to be a fact-checker. Fact-checker of Facebook, but she cannot fact-check herself. She maligned and made libelous statement against a private individual by the name of William Keng,” ayon pa kay Pastor Apollo.
“And, William Keng, you know, called her to tell the truth about it, to revise her story which is not true. But instead of asking apology, she repost it twice. The same malicious statements that she said against William Keng. That’s why the private citizen was forced to go to a court of law,” wika ng butihing Pastor.
“And it happened that she also got a lawyer, she went to the process of our judiciary system to defend herself and the writer that she has in the Rappler. They both lost. Regional Trial Court, we have a judiciary working here —a working judiciary.”
“They went to the Regional Trial Court, they lost. It’s true. She went to the Court of Appeals, the conviction was upheld. Now, her last resort is to go to the Supreme Court,” wika ni Pastor Apollo.
Ipinaliwanag din ni Pastor Apollo kay Clooney kung paano nagpapanggap si Ressa. At kung gaano kagalit ang mga Pinoy dito.
“She is misinforming the Filipino people here about the Philippines and misinforming the international community about the state of our country and she is not even I think a Filipino citizen. I think she is an American citizen, and operating here, pretending to be a journalist. And how did she get her Nobel Peace Prize, I don’t know. I don’t know how she railroaded that because in the Philippines, Rappler is the least trusted, what you call, I can’t call it media. And they are there to really look at the Filipino people in a very, very bad light and in a very, very bad way,” paliwanag ni Pastor Apollo.
Giit din ni Pastor Apollo na maging siya ay biktima ng mga paninira ni Ressa at ng Rappler.
At ang toxicity ng Rappler ay abot hanggang sa international scene.
”Including me, her compatriots there in that Rappler pseudo-media even maligned me, even maligned the Kingdom and me. That is how they do it. That is how they are producing this kind of news that are so toxic to us. And this toxicity she brings to the international community. So, please study the case before you make your statement,” ang pahayag ni Pastor Apollo.