Dismay over Philippine journalist Maria Ressa’s prison sentence

NewsReporters Without Borders (RSF) is appalled by the six months and one day to up to six years prison sentence that Philippine journalist Maria Ressa received on a criminal libel charge in a shocking judicial masquerade in Manila today, and calls on the country’s justice system to recover a semblance of credibility by overturning her conviction on appeal.A Manila regional court convicted Maria Ressa, co-founder and director of the independent news website Rappler, over an article published in 2012 that was the subject of a

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