Philippines’ Duterte Seeks to Smash Crusading News Site
If ever there were indications that Philippine President Rodrigo R. Duterte is following in the footsteps of the ousted strongman Ferdinand Marcos, it is the way he is bending the country’s laws to hound critics, most lately Maria Ressa, arguably the country’s most celebrated journalist and his most trenchant critic.
Ressa, one of Asia’s most prominent j…
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