Lawyer files charges vs Sun.Star, ABS-CBN

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Lawyer files charges vs Sun.Star, ABS-CBN
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Wednesday, May 6, 2009

ONE of the lawyers of the Swedish nationals accused of operating a cybersex den in Cagayan de Oro has accused this paper and a TV station of violating a provision in the anti-trafficking law, under which his clients have been charged.

Lawyer Quintilianito S. Babarin filed cases against Sun.Star Cagayan de Oro and ABS-CBN Northern Mindanao’s media practitioners for violating Section 7 of the Republic Act 9208, otherwise knowN as Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act of 2003.

If proven guilty, the respondent-mediamen could face six years imprisonment and a fine of not less than half a million pesos.

Section 7 of RA 9208 provides for the recognition of the “right to privacy of the trafficked person and the accused,” and forbids the media “to cause publicity of any case of trafficking in persons” when the “prosecution or trial is conducted behind closed-doors.”

No such closed-door “prosecution or trial” ever occurred, or ordered, since the City Prosecutors Office heard the case against Bo Stefan Sederholms and Emil Andreas Solemo and four others last week. The court had yet to conduct its maiden hearing on the case.

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Lawyer files charges vs Sun.Star, ABS-CBN | Sun.Star Network Online

[Dorothea]

Atty. Babarin, how much are you getting paid for this? hmnn

[alert0]

mao pay saypan. mao pay makakwarta.

[joshua259]

hahaha sunod2x mani sila sa gawas woi... human rights daw... sakpan na nga nag operate onya mo kiha pagud...

[seven_segment]

unsaon man nga anaa man sad sa balaod...

para maka-kwarta sad gud...


though bisag ang sayop nga nabuhat mas grabe pa...laliman kag cybersex?! hehehe

nya para kato ra...usual report from the media?!

[k.A.i]

para bawi gamay sa kwarta ba wahehe

[mannyamador]

Looks like a delaying or intimidation tactic.