Philippine journalist Maria Ressa, the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize winner and CEO of Rappler, gestures as she speaks to reporters after being acquitted by the Pasig Regional Trial Court docket in a tax evasion case in Pasig Metropolis, Philippines, Sept. 12, 2023. | Photograph credit score: AP
A court docket has dominated that Philippine information web site Rappler can proceed to function, based on a replica of the choice launched to media on Friday (Aug 9, 2024), within the newest authorized victory for the media outlet.
The Court docket of Appeals overturned an earlier ruling by the Philippine Securities and Change Fee (SEC) that had successfully ordered the closure of the corporate co-founded by Nobel laureate Maria Ressa.
Ms Ressa, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021, was an outspoken critic of former President Rodrigo Duterte and the lethal struggle on medicine he launched in 2016.
That set off what media advocates say was a grueling collection of felony costs, investigations and on-line assaults towards her and Rappler.
The Court docket of Appeals issued its ruling on July 23 that “reversed and vacated” the SEC’s resolution on the grounds that its order had been a “grave abuse of discretion.”
It contravened “established procedures, authorized and jurisprudential directions and the clear intention of the Structure,” the court docket stated.
The SEC’s closure order was issued on June 29, 2022, the day earlier than Duterte left workplace.
