Maria Ressa is allowed to remain free on bail pending appeal of the conviction. FMTNews Philippine Duterte Ressa
MANILA: High-profile Philippine journalist Maria Ressa was convicted Monday in a cyber libel case that press freedom advocates have branded a ploy to silence critics of President Rodrigo Duterte.
“We are going to stand up against any kind of attacks against press freedom,” Ressa told journalists after the conviction in Manila. But state prosecutors later filed charges against her and Reynaldo Santos, the former Rappler journalist who wrote it, under a controversial cyber crime statute aimed at online offences such as stalking and child pornography.
“I’ve been the cautionary tale: be quiet or you’re next … that’s part of the reason why I have been targeted,” Ressa, a co-founder of Rappler and a former CNN journalist, told AFP in an exclusive interview last week. Ressa’s verdict comes just over a month after government regulators forced off the air ABS-CBN, the nation’s top broadcaster, following years of threats by Duterte to shut down the network.
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