The announcement of the closure of this digital platform comes the day before the end of the presidency of Rodrigo Duterte. Maria Résa, figure of the media, is a virulent criticism of the Philippin leader.
Le Monde with AFP
The Filipino Information Site has been ordered to close but “we continue to work, it’s as usual,” said Maria Ressa, Nobel Prize in the Nobel Press on Wednesday, June 29, Nobel Prize peace and co -founder of this media. M re -criticized regularly, with intensity, President Rodrigo Duterte and his murderer “anti -crop war”, and his digital platform is the subject of legal proceedings and many online threats.
The Philippine Securities Commission confirmed, Wednesday, in a press release “the revocation of the certificates which allowed the creation” to bring together. This measure is based on the fact that this media has violated “constitutional and statutory restrictions on foreign property within the media”. This decision “confirms the closure” of the digital platform, according to Rappler who intends to call on this “very irregular” procedure.
“We have discussed all possible scenarios with [the staff] to bring back since this commission issued its first decree in 2018,” Glenda Gloria, editor -in -chief and co -founder of the site, to journalists told the press, . “Nothing is sufficiently preparing an organism for such killing”.
multiple attacks from the presidency
Raplate for his survival since Mr. Duterte’s government accuses him of tax evasion and of violating foreign property regulations in order to obtain funding. The site was also accused of violating a law adopted in 2012, the year of creation of Rappling, in matters of cybercrime.