“People should know that the line has been crossed,” Ressa told reporters, adding she would seek bail. #EuronewsNow | Maria Ressa (@mariaressa) was one of a group of journalists who won the 2018 Time Person of the Year award. “This is nothing to do with freedom of expression or freedom of the press,” he told news channel ANC. “These cases are intended to intimidate us,” Chay Hofilena, Rappler’s investigative editor, told media. Rappler’s reporters are regularly threatened by elements of Duterte’s online support base, part of what Rappler’s investigations say is an organized “weaponizing” of the internet by the government.

Source: Huffington Post February 13, 2019 13:57 UTC