A Philippine news site co-founded by Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa has been ordered to shut down, the company said Wednesday, a day before President Rodrigo Duterte its arch-nemesis leaves office.
Philippine journalist Maria Ressa’s online news site Rappler was yesterday ordered to shut down, a day before Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was due to leave office, but she vowed to keep the site running.
The Nobel Peace Prize laureate has been a vocal critic of Duterte and the deadly drug war that he launched in 2016, triggering what media advocates say is a grinding series of criminal charges, probes and online attacks against her and Rappler.
The latest blow was delivered by the Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission.
The commission confirmed in a statement yesterday the “revocation of the certificates of incorporation” of
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