MANILA: The journalist who leads a news site that has battled Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte paid a cash bail on a tax fraud charge she says is an effort to intimidate the publication.
Maria Ressa’s Rappler has been hit by a string of government efforts to shut it down since the site took a critical tone on Duterte, in particular his internationally condemned drug war that has killed thousands.
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