The Nobel Peace Prize recipient, co-founder of the independent news site Rappler, said that the Philippine government had filed 10 arrest warrants against herIn an interview, Ressa said she was “breathless, stunned and happy” upon hearing about the honour, which she shared with the Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov. Maria Ressa said on Friday that her being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize was a recognition of the dangers of being a journalist at a time when freedom of the press was under attack. “I didn’t know how to react, and then, wow,” Ressa said. It’s so much that we’ve gone through in the last five and a half years and then this. “What we’re seeing is a thousand cuts to the body politic, to our democracy.” In selecting two journalists for the Peace Prize, Ressa said, the Nobel committee showed the world “how dangerous it is to be a journalist today.

Source: The Telegraph October 08, 2021 19:07 UTC