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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the Hold the Line Coalition (HTL) welcome Tuesday’s Regional Trial Court verdict acquitting Nobel laureate Maria Ressa and her news outlet Rappler, on the final criminal tax charge leveled against them by the regime of former President Rodrigo Duterte.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the Hold the Line Coalition (HTL) welcome Tuesday’s Regional Trial Court verdict acquitting Nobel laureate Maria Ressa and her news outlet Rappler, on the final criminal tax charge leveled against them by the regime of former President Rodrigo Duterte.
The Hold the Line Coalition welcomes the court decision as it calls for an end to the "constant persecution" against journalist Maria Ressa and the news company she founded, "Rappler".
The Hold the Line Coalition (HTL) welcomes Philippine Court of Tax Appeals verdict, which has acquitted on Wednesday 18 January Nobel laureate Maria Ressa and Rappler, the news organization she founded, of tax evasion in four of seven cases brought by the government.