Maria Ressa: Philippines Nobel laureate acquitted in court

[muriel_volestrangler]

Nobel laureate Maria Ressa has been acquitted in the last of five tax evasion cases filed against her in the Philippines, in what is being hailed as a win for press freedom.
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All the cases were lodged during former president Rodrigo Duterte's term.

Ms Ressa's news website Rappler published reports criticising his bloody war on drugs

She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021 for her fearless reporting in the face of growing authoritarianism in the Philippines, an honour she shared with Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/66782826

Glad to see courts in the Phillipines are still honest. Muratov, of course, is being persecuted by Putin:

The Russian authorities have added the renowned editor and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dmitry Muratov to their list of "foreign agents" - a label used to stifle critics of the Kremlin.

His independent Novaya Gazeta newspaper stopped publishing in Russia last March, after the Kremlin imposed tight controls on media covering Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Many Kremlin critics and civil society groups are on the "foreign agent" list.
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He auctioned off his Nobel medal to raise money for Ukrainian refugees.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66686151

[cbabe]

1. Thank you for posting. I heard on bbc last night but forgot. I think

a final lawsuit is still pending if you know of it?