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Maria Ressa says forces that enabled former Philippines president’s rise are now fueling democratic backsliding in the West

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

Outlet, which was hit with order during Rodrigo Duterte administration, hails ruling after ‘eight years of harassment’

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