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"As a journalist, I know firsthand how the law is being weaponized against perceived critics. I am not a critic. I am a journalist. I am doing my job holding the government to account."
- Maria Ressa
#holdtheline #cnn #newsstream
Minors, reminder lang po. Basta sinimulan niyo po, tatapusin ko. Hindi po kayo excuse sa law. We can exercise our freedom of speech, but let's not abuse it. If you are to attack someone, might as well use your own profile pic, otherwise, you are nothing, but a troll.
" MANILA, Philippines — The Court of Appeals (CA) has upheld a decision by a Marikina Regional Trial Court (RTC) to proceed with a libel case and the issuance of arrest warrants against a minor and five other persons for alleged defamatory posts on a social networking site."
👉👉👉 https://technology.inquirer.net/22725/ca-affirms-libel-case-vs-teen-blogger-for-maligning-another-girl
Declaration by the Network of Vietnamese Bloggers on the prosecution and trial of Đinh Nhật Uy
Tuyên bố của Mạng lưới Blogger Việt Nam về cáo trạng và phiên tòa xét xử Đinh Nhật Uy
Whereas the People's Procuratorate of Tân An City on September 6, 2013 released the indictment against Đinh Nhật Uy and is going to put Uy on trial on October 29, 2013, the Network of Vietnamese Bloggers asserts and declares the following, on the prosecution as well as the forthcoming trial of Uy:
1. Citizen Đinh Nhật Uy is being charged under a law which, by providing for punishment upon “abusing democratic freedoms to infringe upon the interests of the State, the legitimate rights and interests of organizations and/or citizens”, has:
- violated Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which stipulates that “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression. This right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers”;
- allowed an arbitrary interpretation which is not based on any legal framework or any specific regulation and can be applied to any civic action;
- created a legal context in which the alleged victim whose interest is “trespassed on”, ie. the State, is acting as the investigator and the prosecutor (the investigating body and the People's Procuratorate), as well as the judge and jury (as the court), while at the same time this same State and the ruling Party have always rejected principles of separation of power and maintained the monopoly of the Communist Party dictating every stage of the legal proceeding process. This means no independent judiciary during the trial process.
Such a prosecution and trial based on a law that violates international obligations and runs counter to basic principles of law cannot legitimately convict any citizen. The Network of Vietnamese Bloggers, before, during and after the trial, holds the opinion that Đinh Nhật Uy is innocent.
2. If the Tan An People's Court and the entire legal system of Vietnam keep convicting Uy, then the Network of Vietnamese Bloggers, based on the principle that all citizens, including both leaders and members of the Party, are equal before the law, according to Article 52 of the Vietnamese Constitution, requests:
- The People's Procuratorate to charge citizen Trương Tấn Sang, who has “abused democratic freedoms to infringe upon the interests of the State” by offensively calling Prime Minister Nguyễn Tấn Dũng as “comrade X” and labelling the ruling Party as “a bunch of insects.”
- The People's Procuratorate to charge citizen Nguyễn Phú Trọng, who has “abused democratic freedoms to infringe upon the interests of the State” by defaming the Vietnamese Communist Party, “There are cases of macro corruption; there are also cases of petty corruption which are as annoying as scabies. No matter where you go, you must have money on you,” although to date there has not any organization to be charged and proved guilty of corruption.
- The People's Procuratorate to charge citizen Nguyễn Sinh Hùng, who has “abused democratic freedoms to infringe upon the interests of the State” by saying, “Corruption has penetrated into even our anti-corruption forces,” despite the fact that there has not been anyone in the anti-corruption forces convicted of corruption.
- The People's Procuratorate to charge all journalists who have “abused democratic freedoms to infringe upon the interests of the State, the legitimate rights and interests of organizations and/or individuals” by committing libel against national corporations, convicting Vietnamese citizens even when there has not yet been any verdict by the court, criticizing and smearing the State's leaders.
- The People's Procuratorate to charge all of us, Vietnamese bloggers who have raised opinions and published articles similar to what Đinh Nhật Uy wrote, Vietnamese bloggers who publicly wear advocacy T-shirts, “Paracels-Spratlys-Vietnam”; “No to U-Line! Yes to UNCLOS”, “Abolish 'the ox-tongue line', defend Vietnam's islands and seas”, all of which have been alleged as evidence of Đinh Nhật Uy's wrong-doings.
3. We urge the United Nations Human Rights Council to deem the prosecution and trial of Đinh Nhật Uy as one of the issues that need considering with regard to Vietnam's candidacy for membership in the United Nations Human Rights Council.
October 24, 2013
The Network of Vietnamese Bloggers
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【時間碼】
00:00:33 restriction 禁令
00:01:09 biblical 規模極大的
00:02:04 secularism 世俗主義
00:03:13 libel 誹謗
00:03:54 landmark 里程碑
00:04:40 簡單複習
第一個單字是 restriction、r-e-s-t-r-i-c-t-i-o-n、restriction 禁令，例句是： France announces significant lifting of restrictions.
武漢肺炎，全球還好呢？基本上，不太好，但大部分國家都在解除禁令，為什麼？想開店、開工廠賺錢啦。禁令就是 restriction。
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52978327
第二個單字是 biblical、b-i-b-l-i-c-a-l、biblical 規模極大的，例句是：Locusts are a plague of biblical scope in 2020.
蝗蟲又來了，而且這次的規模，超級大，很可怕！狂掃農田，非洲東部的農夫很可憐
話說，原來蝗蟲是一種蚱蜢，平常就綠綠的，沒什麼特別，不過，遇到大雨，他們就會抓狂進化，他們的頭腦、顏色、體型都會變，開始亂飛狂吃！這次蝗災，預計規模很會很大，就可以用 biblical 這個形容詞喔！
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/06/14/876002404/locusts-are-a-plague-of-biblical-scope-in-2020-why-and-what-are-they-exactly
第三個單字是 secularism、s-e-c-u-l-a-r-i-s-m、secularism 世俗主義，反對宗教干預政府，例句是：A demonstration is being held to mark the first anniversary of the passing of Quebec’s secularism law.
加拿大的魁北克省，一年前立法規定，公務員不准穿任何宗教相關衣服。所以老師、警察、法官啊，如果信伊斯蘭教，想要戴頭巾，不行！違法！這根本就是歧視嘛，欺負少數。
成立這條法律的時候，政府講得冠冕堂皇，說是要阻擋宗教勢力，不讓他們控制政府。就是拿「世俗主義」當藉口。世俗主義就是 secularism。https://globalnews.ca/news/7064699/demonstration-marks-one-year-since-adoption-of-quebecs-secularism-law/
第四個單字是 libel、l-i-b-e-l、libel 誹謗，例句是： A Philippine journalist is found guilty of 'cyber libel'.
菲律賓有一個新聞網站，很敢批評菲律賓現任總統，結果，這個網站的創辦人最近麻煩大了，被判「網路誹謗罪」，可能要吃 6 年牢飯。菲律賓的新聞自由度，一直在下滑，記者「錢歹賺」。
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-53046052
最後一個單字是 landmark、l-a-n-d-m-a-r-k、landmark 里程碑，例句是：A landmark civil rights law protects LGBT people from discrimination in employment.
美國法律規定，職場上不可以有性別歧視，而美國最高法院說，這條法律，也會保護同志族群，真是太好了～這條法律對美國來說，非常重要，50 幾年前就訂立了。這個法律，影響深遠，我們可以說它是個 landmark，里程碑。
https://apnews.com/ef3c19a79b65c060fd9e82b9dd87a1d9
簡單複習：restriction 禁令、biblical 規模極大的、secularism 世俗主義、libel 誹謗、landmark 里程碑。
恭喜你！今天學了 5 個新單字，還聽了 5 則國際大事！你喜歡這樣聽新聞、學英文嗎？希望你可以訂閱我們的 podcast，然後為我們留 5 顆星的評價。謝謝收聽，下次通勤見～
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