{"id":4338,"date":"2019-07-23T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/23\/philippines-libel-trial-of-maria-ressa-journalist-critical-of-president-duterte-begins"},"modified":"2019-07-23T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T07:00:00","slug":"philippines-libel-trial-of-journalist-critical-of-rodrigo-duterte-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=4338","title":{"rendered":"Philippines libel trial of  journalist critical of Rodrigo Duterte begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maria Ressa faces prison term if convicted under criminal cyberlibel law<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/feb\/14\/maria-ressa-arrest-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-rappler-editor\">Maria Ressa: everything you need to know about the Rappler editor<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> A libel trial against the editor of Rappler, a Philippine news site critical of the regime of President Rodrigo Duterte, has begun in a case widely seen as an attempt by the government to intimidate journalists and curtail press freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Maria Ressa was arrested and held overnight in February on charges of cyberlibel for a story published by Rappler in 2012, before being released on bail. She described the charges as \u201cpreposterous and baseless\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/23\/philippines-libel-trial-of-maria-ressa-journalist-critical-of-president-duterte-begins\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maria Ressa faces prison term if convicted under criminal cyberlibel lawMaria Ressa: everything you need to know about the Rappler editor A libel trial against the editor of Rappler, a Philippine news site critical of the regime of President Rodrigo Du&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"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":[41,240,238,55,54,204,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-maria-ressa","category-media","category-philippines","category-press-freedom","category-rodrigo-duterte","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\/4338","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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4339,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4338\/revisions\/4339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}