The message behind Maria Ressa’s ‘cyberlibel’ arrest
by Katie Reilly
Mar 04, 2019
2 minutes
MARIA RESSA SPENT NEW YEAR’S EVE IN TIMES SQUARE, a guest of honor at a celebration of the free press. Little more than a month later, the Filipina journalist spent the night in a Manila jail over a “cyberlibel” charge brought by the government against her as executive editor of the news site Rappler.
Human-rights and journalism organizations have condemned the charge—Amnesty International called it
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