ARRESTED. Writer Maria Victoria Beltran is arrested by Central Visayas police after making a sarcastic Facebook post. Background photo by Gelo Litonjua/Rappler and screengrab from Maria Victoria Beltran's Facebook page– A Cebu film writer and owner of a local bar was arrested early morning on Sunday, April 19 over a sarcastic Facebook post she made in relation to the coronavirus"contamination" of Sitio Zapatera in Cebu City.
After Labella threatened Beltran with arrest, she took down this post and issued this statement on her Facebook page. She said that"even an ordinary person without the benefit of being exposed to the finer qualities of literature" should understand that the post was satirical.The post was a comment on the Cebu City Health Department and Department of Health announcement that the entire area would be considered “contaminated” with 136 people testing positive, the most out of any area in the region so far.
So satire is now against the law?🤔
Nangangamoy NPA.
Martial Law all over again? Mga DDS ok i-criticize ang actions ni Leni pero ibang tao hindi pwede i-criticize ang gobyerno?
Ito lang ang bansa na pag tumulong ka, nakukulong kapa. Di mo alam san ilulugar ang sarili mo.
I mean 9000 cases is patently false. She deserves to be detained. Freedom of expression doesn't equal to freedom from responsibility.
Na hurt siya...?
For me this is just like providing an example for the figure of speech called hyperbole aren't we literary? FreeBambi
Yan lang inaresto na? Labo ng gobyerno ngayon.
What is really the truth about that area is this another hidden data of DOH ?
grabe 9,000 confirmed cases? Eh buong Pilipinas 6000+ and reported eh. May taguan ba ng info? or gusto magcause ng panic? ano ba talaga ang totoo?
Kelangan ba nya ng Abugado? Mukhang tinatapakan ang Human Rights nya.