why Filipino journalist Maria Ressa's arrest should matter to all of us
- Written by Peter Greste, Professor of Journalism and Communications, The University of Queensland
In a scene right out of a thriller, agents from the Filipino National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) raided journalist and editor Maria Ressa’s Manila office at 5pm on Wednesday February 13, after most courts had closed. They took her from the Rappler newsroom where she is editor, to a police watch house and threw her in a cell.
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