The Supreme Court has its own guidelines on libel, which allow courts to impose fines instead of imprisonment penalties in libel cases
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The petition claimed that the CA committed grave abuse of discretion when it upheld a Regional Trial Court decision convicting a person for cyber libel, and sentencing him to pay a fine of P50,000.It all started with a Facebook post.Republic Act No. 10175 or the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012Soliman claimed in his social media post that Carpio allegedly “took favors and unduly delayed the release of Soliman’s Sanitary and Phytosanitary Import Clearance.
However, the Office of the Solicitor General , the government’s primary legal counsel, filed a petition for certiorari with the CA, challenging the RTC’s decision. The OSG claimed the RTC committed grave abuse of discretion when it imposed only a fine for Soliman’s libel conviction.
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