{"id":20836,"date":"2020-07-22T14:11:17","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T05:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/22\/philippine-journalist-maria-ressa-denies-tax-evasion-charges"},"modified":"2020-07-22T14:11:17","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T05:11:17","slug":"philippine-journalist-maria-ressa-denies-tax-evasion-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20836","title":{"rendered":"Philippine journalist Maria Ressa denies tax evasion charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Editor of Rappler news site, known for scrutiny of president Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s controversial policies, faces several government lawsuits<\/p>\n<p>Maria Ressa, one of the Philippines\u2019 most prominent journalists, has pleaded not guilty to tax evasion charges in a case she has described as a form of harassment.<\/p>\n<p>Ressa, named a Time Magazine Person of the Year in 2018 for fighting media intimidation, is facing several government lawsuits that have caused international concern about hounding of journalists in the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/22\/philippine-journalist-maria-ressa-denies-tax-evasion-charges\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor of Rappler news site, known for scrutiny of president Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s controversial policies, faces several government lawsuitsMaria Ressa, one of the Philippines\u2019 most prominent journalists, has pleaded not guilty to tax evasion charges in a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,240,238,55,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-maria-ressa","category-media","category-philippines","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20837,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20836\/revisions\/20837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}