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                    [Title] => Old playbook vs Duterte critics resurfaces in journalist Philip Lustre's arrest
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"They couldn’t find him" to serve the complaint, but police found him when it was time to arrest him.

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Instead of decriminalizing libel per se, Court of Appeals Associate Justice Gabriel Ingles said he would rather classify it into different types, each with corresponding penalties.

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