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Philippine Court Erases Final Duterte Bid to Crush Journalist Ressa

With former president now in jail, specious case disappears

Our Correspondent
Mar 11, 2026
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Ressa celebrates. Reuters photo

The decision this week by the Philippine Solicitor General to recommend the acquittal of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa and former researcher Reynaldo Santos Jr. in a long-running cyberlibel case brought under the administration of former President Rodrigo R. Duterte brings to a close an ugly chapter in which offic…

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