{"id":23763,"date":"2018-11-30T04:23:36","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T04:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=23763"},"modified":"2018-11-30T04:23:36","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T04:23:36","slug":"maria-ressa-rappler-formally-indicted-by-the-philippines-on-tax-evasion-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=23763","title":{"rendered":"Maria Ressa, Rappler formally indicted by the Philippines on tax evasion charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Philippines news website Rappler and its chief executive have been indicted on tax evasion charges, the latest in a case that free speech and civil liberties advocates have warned is part of a wider crackdown on dissent by President Rodrigo Duterte&#8217;s administration.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Rappler <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rappler.com\/\/nation\/217838-separate-tax-case-filed-vs-rappler-maria-ressa-pasig-regional-trial-court\" target=\"_blank\">said five cases <\/a>were formally filed against Ressa and Rappler Holdings in two courts, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/11\/10\/asia\/philippine-news-site-charges\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">just weeks <\/a>after the Philippines Department of Justice announced it had found probable cause to indict the pair.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Philippines officials say some of the charges stem from Rappler and Ressa failing to declare about $3 million in 2015 on tax returns from an investment by the Omidyar Network, a fund created by eBay founder and philanthropist Pierre Omidyar.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Philippines news website Rappler and its chief executive have been indicted on tax evasion charges, the latest in a case that free speech and civil liberties advocates have warned is part of a wider crackdown on dissent by President Rodrigo Duterte&#8217;s administration.Rappler said five cases were formally filed against Ressa and Rappler Holdings in two&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":23764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}