The director of the online investigation newspaper “Return” is the subject of multiple prosecution, including a condemnation for cybercrime which she called.
MO12345lemonde with AFP
“Truth won.” It was with these words that the Philippine winner of the Nobel Peace Nobel Maria Reva praised her legal victory on Wednesday, January 18. She and her online online newspaper were acquitted on Wednesday, January 18, of the four taxes of tax evasion for which they were prosecuted, announced a court of appeal.
Maria Résa, co-laureate of the prestigious Nobel Peace Nobel in 2021 with Dmitry Muratov, faces three other criminal cases, including a condemnation for cybercrime, currently on appeal, for which she faces almost seven years in prison.
By crowning this journalist with a rare pugnacity, the Nobel Committee had paid tribute to the crusade that it led against former president Rodrigo Duterte, with the Rapler site, a media that she had founded with three other women journalists and of which she is the leader in Manila. Ravrele was notably illustrated by his coverage of the deadly war against the drug of the populist leader.
very irregular “procedures
Raplate had received the order to close in June for having violated “constitutional and statutory restrictions on foreign property within the media”. Maria Ressa had called on this procedure qualified as “very irregular”.
The newspaper and its founder were accused of tax evasion and breaking 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 terms of cybercrime.