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Maria Ressa says rules-based order ‘can perhaps still exist’ but social media is being used to undermine democracy around the world

The vice president has described former President Rodrigo Duterte’s arrest over his deadly drug war as ‘oppression’.

Philippine court overturns shutdown order on critical news outlet Rappler, a victory for press freedom.

Rappler calls decision to overturn shutdown order ‘vindication after a tortuous eight years of harassment’.

One hundred days after Iranians first protested the killing of 22-year-old Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini for wearing her hijab incorrectly, Narges Mohammadi sat down in her prison cell to write a letter to the country’s women. She promised: “We shall not back down until the moment of victory, meaning the…

Philippines Nobel laureate Maria Ressa and her news site Rappler have been acquitted of tax fraud by a trial court.

Maria Ressa said the charges against her were politically motivated as Rappler was critical of Duterte's brutal crackdown on illegal drugs that left thousands of mostly petty drug suspects dead.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa has been acquitted of a final tax evasion charge though she still faces two remaining legal cases she believes the former Philippine president used to muzzle her critical reporting

Exclusive: methodology used by Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism risks undermining media in global south, says Ressa