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Duterte Takes on the Filipino Press

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May 08, 2018
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It has become a habit for Maria Ressa, the embattled CEO of the Philippines news site Rappler.com, to face prosecutors from the Department of Justice. On May 7, Ressa again appeared before them in a tax evasion case that appears to be little more than political harassment by President Rodrigo Duterte.

Rappler, the country’s leading social news site, has …

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