Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa was acquitted of a final tax evasion charge on September 12 though she still faces two remaining legal cases she believes the former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte used to muzzle her critical reporting. Ms. Ressa and her online news organisation Rappler had faced five tax evasion charges but a court acquitted her of four …
Appellate tax court clears journalist and Nobel laureate of all four charges of tax evasion, which could have sent her to prison for decades. It is for every Filipino who has ever been unjustly accused.” Ressa, 53, who won the Nobel Peace Prize along with Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov in 2021, is the head of Rappler, which earned a reputation …
