Duterte government accused of shameless persecution of Rappler’s Maria RessaThe editor of an online newspaper in the Philippines has been arrested on charges of cyber-libel as part of what the country’s journalists’ union said was a campaign of intimidation against voices critical of President Rodrigo Duterte.Speaking from the website’s headquarters on Wednesday before she was taken away by four plainclothes officers, Maria Ressa said she was not intimidated. “These legal acrobatics show how far the government will go to silence journalists, including the pettiness of forcing me to spend the night in jail,” she added. Continue reading…
Via: Philippine editor defiant after arrest on cyber-libel charges
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