Manila (AFP) – Less than a year after winning the Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to protect free speech, Philippine journalist Maria Ressa is fighting to stay out of jail while her news website Rappler faces possible closure. But the spirited veteran reporter — a vocal critic of former president Rodrigo Duterte and his deadly drug war — refuses to be cowed into silence. “I have seen some of my rights go by, but we’re still here. We’re doing the stories, we’re fighting for press freedom,” she says in an interview with AFP from Rappler’s office in suburban Manila.
