MANILA, Philippines—The Supreme Court has cleared members of the media of indirect contempt filed by Ampatuan counsel Sigfrid Fortun. In a decision dated February 13, 2013, but made public on Wednesday, the high court's second division through Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio cleared officials of the Freedom Fund for Filipino Journalists (FFFJ), INQUIRER.net's Tetch Torres, Philippine Star's Edu Punay, ABS-CBN's Cecilia Victoria OreƱa-Drilon and GMA online's Sophia Dedace for reporting the disbarment complaint filed against Fortun. The high court said while disbarment complaints are confidential in nature as stated under Section 18, Rule ...
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