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Persecution of Rappler underscores need to decriminalize libel NOW

Feb 18, 2019 | Headlines, Statement

Feb. 18, 2019The government’s persecution of Maria Ressa and Rappler, the latest of which is the Department of Justice’s brazen perversion of the law to allow their prosecution for cyber libel, underscores the urgent need to decriminalize the offense.It is bad enough...

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