“This is part of a deliberate strategy where the government wants journalists to be afraid. Threats are part of a pattern of silencing, part of a chilling effect.” Read:
Resource persons at “The Trial of Maria Ressa Et Al” forum organized by Rappler and the Consortium on Democracy and Disinformation on Monday included Ann Marie Lipinski, Pulitzer Prize winning former editor in chief of the Chicago Tribune and curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard; London-based human rights and media law specialist Caoilfhionn Gallagher QC; Peter Greste, a veteran journalist with stints in the BBC, Reuters and Al Jazeera now based in Brisbane, Australia; and...
Geste, who suffered imprisonment in Egypt for his work, said it would be “incredibly naive” to insist “there was no political pressure [on the court and that the judge] was not aware of the politics” involved in Ressa’s case.“The judge will be acutely aware of the pressure,” Geste said less than an hour before Branch 46 of the Manila Regional Trial Court promulgated the decision.
“The threats on Maria are far less subtle,” Gallagher said. “This is part of a deliberate strategy where the government wants journalists to be afraid. Threats are part of a pattern of silencing, part of a chilling effect.”
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