MANILA, Jan 16 (AFP): Embattled Philippine journalist Maria Ressa (
pic) faces a third cyber libel charge, her lawyer has announced, this time for a story over students allegedly paying a professor for passing grades.
Ressa and her news site Rappler face at least a dozen criminal charges and investigations after publishing stories critical of President Rodrigo Duterte's policies, including his bloody drug war.
"It's my 10th arrest warrant in less than two years. That's definitely a pattern of harassment," Ressa, who
Time magazine named Person of the Year in 2018, told AFP.
In June, the former CNN correspondent was convicted on another charge of cyber libel; she is on bail pending an appeal against that verdict, which could see her spend up to six years in prison.