MANILA: High-profile Philippine journalist Maria Ressa's libel trial opens Tuesday (Jul 23) in a case that press freedom advocates see as ...
This case is among a string of criminal charges that have hit Ressa and Rappler over the past year, prompting allegations that authorities are targeting her and her team for their work.
"The message that the government is sending is very clear," Ressa told reporters in February as she posted bail after spending the night in jail over the libel case:"Be silent or you're next."The case that opens Tuesday centres on a Rappler report from 2012 about a businessman's alleged ties to a then-judge of the nation's top court.
The legal foundation of the case is a controversial"cybercrime law" aimed at online offences ranging from stalking to child pornography.Government lawyers say it is effectively a new article since Rappler had updated it in 2014 to fix a typographical error.
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