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Here's why Liza Diño filed a cyber libel case

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Peter Andrew Acierto

<div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Former Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP) Chairperson Liza Diño-Seguerra shared why she took legal measures against entertainment website PEP. It could be recalled that she filed 78 counts of cyber libel via 4 complaints at the Office of the Prosecutor of Quezon City against PEP and personalities just last week to the surprise of many.</span></div><div><br/></div><div><iframe src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Flizadino%2Fposts%2Fpfbid026f6yTyvWCzp3KQuN18QiaSBpwa8Qx7kmRCKZcxvM6zz42G1kZJ7TKpRxQFB9vvitl&amp;show_text=false&amp;width=500&amp;is_preview=true" width="500" height="498" style="border:none;overflow:hidden" scrolling="no" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div><div><br/></div><p>Liza claimed that she is only exercising her rights as a citizen to fight for what she considers an injustice.</p><div><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://push.abs-cbn.com/2024/1/20/liza-dino-on-supporting-pinoy-drag-queens-we-don-t-belong-on-the-sides-1246" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="https://push.abs-cbn.com/2024/1/20/liza-dino-on-supporting-pinoy-drag-queens-we-don-t-belong-on-the-sides-1246" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>READ: Liza Diño on supporting Pinoy drag queens: ‘We don’t belong on the sides’</strong></a></span></div><div><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“Right now, we have filed a case and we have yet to hear from them. I guess it will take a week or something para ma-receive nila &#x27;yung subpoena. But you know, I&#x27;m exercising my right to lay back my narrative,” she shared.</span></div><div><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“Napakalaki ng respeto ko sa press, alam niyo &#x27;yan. Siguro kailangan din natin maging responsible sa paglalabas ng kung anong istorya. It&#x27;s very important for us to understand what we are reporting is the truth,&quot; she added. </span></div><div><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Meanwhile, her husband, Ice Seguerra, expressed his support towards her in this legal battle. </span></div><div><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“I&#x27;ll support her in all ways. I&#x27;m being there for her, especially those months when it was happening, just being there always in every step of the way,” he shared.</span></div><div><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Previously, Liza shared on her social media accounts about the filing of the cyber libel cases against PEP and other personalities. She claimed that “malicious articles” were released to attack “everything” about who she was–– from her stint as an FDCP chair to just being herself.</span></div><div><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://push.abs-cbn.com/2023/12/1/exclusive-ice-seguerra-shares-why-he-s-excited-for-2024-807" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="https://push.abs-cbn.com/2023/12/1/exclusive-ice-seguerra-shares-why-he-s-excited-for-2024-807" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>READ: EXCLUSIVE: Ice Seguerra shares why he’s excited for 2024</strong></a></span></div><div><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“Hiding behind anonymous sources and twisted facts, these articles didn’t seek to inform, but to damage and destroy me. Matagal kong pinag-isipan ito,” she previously shared.</span></div><div><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">She claimed that while it was a “difficult decision to make,” she had to do what she thought was right for her. </span></div><div><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“I have decided to fight back and reclaim my name and reputation through a system that is impartial to their great power and influence. I refuse to engage in trial by publicity and in fighting dirty. Instead, I place my trust in the justice system and its proper channels,”</span></div><div><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“Regardless of the outcome, I will rest easy knowing that I stood up for myself and demanded accountability,” she wrote.</span></div><div><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Apart from PEP’s news editor and editor-in-chief, former FDCP Chair Tirso Cruz III and present FDCP chair Jose Javier Reyes were included in the complaints that Liza filed at the Quezon City Prosecutor’s Office. </span></div>

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Here's why Liza Diño filed a cyber libel case

Drew Acierto

Published May 29, 2024 06:34 PM PHT

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