LITTLE KNOWN FACTS ABOUT PHILIPPINES: HOLDING POWERFUL PEOPLE ACCOUNTABLE.

Rappler, which was regularly attacked by Duterte when he was president, and its CEO and Nobel laureate Maria Ressa were being acquitted of tax evasion in January. But 6 months previously, an appellate court upheld a call convicting her plus a previous colleague of cyber libel and in many cases improved their jail sentence, and community perception