Nobel prize for peace to maria ressa, brave philippine journalist

The professional has been denounced, prosecuted and arrested many times for having denounced the violence and corruption of the president of her country.

Last year, as the World Association of Women Journalists and Writers, we had expressed solidarity with the Philippine colleague Maria Ressa, one of the most fierce criticisms against President Rodrigo Duterte, and denounced the sentence of six years in prison of the professional for the «serious crime» of having denounced the authoritarian methods of the powerful Philippine businessman president.

This October 8, Maria Ressa, together with the Russian colleague Dmitry Andreyevich Muratov, received the Nobel Peace Prize «for their efforts to protect freedom of expression, a necessary condition to safeguard democracy and lasting peace,» according to the Committee motivation for the Nobel.

It is a more than deserved award from both information professionals since Maria Ressa is among the founders of the news site Rappler while Muratov from the pages of Novaya Gazeta has criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin on numerous occasions. «We have done nothing but my duty as journalists,» he said in an interview with the New York Tomes just a year ago. “And that is why I have suffered 11 processes in a year and a half; I have had to pay 8 bonds in three months, I have been arrested twice ”.