'We hope to see the Philippines leave the mistakes of its past behind,' say 11 Nobel Peace prize laureates, a day before their fellow Nobel laureate Maria Ressa was acquitted of tax evasion charges.
MANILA, Philippines – Eleven Nobel Peace Prize winners have urged President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to ensure justice and a fair trial for Rappler CEO Maria Ressa, their fellow Nobel laureate, who faces several charges that may land her in jail for a lifetime.
Ressa has faced criminal charges on tax evasion, violation of the anti-dummy law, and cyber libel, which she, Rappler, and her supporters believe to be politically motivated. They were all filed during the previous administration under Rodrigo Duterte. Ira Helfand, co-President of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 1985On Wednesday, January 18, a day after the Nobel laureates’ letter was released, thethat there was still more work to do.
“It is our hope that your plans will include strengthening one of the bedrocks of global democracy, a free and independent press. The free media, increasingly under threat by autocrats and would-be autocrats, is rightfully fiercely protected by democracies across the globe,” they said. But, at home, apart from the “vicious and widespread campaign of hate,” the Nobel winners said that Ressa’s arrests, indictments, and possible prison sentences were “political persecution.”
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