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Maria Ressa, executive editor of online news outlet Rappler and press freedom advocate, was arrested on 13 February 2019 over politically motivated “cyber-libel” charges (online defamation). She was held overnight and then released after posting PhP100,000 (approx. USD2,000) in bail. Rappler has been a consistent critic of President Rodrigo Duterte and his administration, and Maria Ressa’s arrest appears to be part of broader campaign to silence critics of the government.

Responding to the news that human rights lawyer Benjamin Ramos gunned down by still unidentified men on 6 November, Ritz Lee Santos III, Amnesty International Philippines chairperson, said:

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Amnesty’s first ever South African Secretary General sets out his vision for the direction of the world’s largest human rights organisation as he starts his tenure visiting Johannesburg.

Amnesty International Philippines criticized President Rodrigo Duterte’s policies on human rights, or the lack thereof, saying that impunity and lack of accountability have been shamelessly displayed at almost all levels of his administration, failing to meet its basic job to protect the Filipino people including meeting their basic economic needs and civil liberties. Jose Noel Olano, Amnesty International Philippines Section Director, said:

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Responding to ICC Office of the Prosecutor’s announcement on opening the preliminary examination into the situation in the Philippines in the context of the ‘war on drugs’, Board Vice Chairperson, Atty. Romeo Cabarde, said:

Reacting to the news that the Philippines authorities have ordered the closure of the independent media outlet Rappler, James Gomez, Amnesty International’s Director of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, said: