RSF refers threat to Philippine website to UN, UNESCO and ASEAN

NewsReporters Without Borders (RSF) is asking the United Nations, UNESCO and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to take a stand against the Philippine government’s decision to close the country’s leading independent news website, Rappler, on trumped-up legal grounds. In a flagrant violation of media freedom, President Rodrigo Duterte’s government announced on 15 January that it was

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