FRANCE 24 speaks to Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa

FRANCE 24 brings you special https://jartexnetwork.com/members/dmjuriya.224167/#about live coverage on the topic of press freedom under attack. We speak to this year's joint Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa, co-founder of the digital media company Rappler and an outspoken critic of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. More broadly, we ask whether journalism is becoming more dangerous around the world. To help answer that question, we're joined by our senior reporter Catherine Norris-Trent and the executive director of Reporters https://applecraft.org/community/members/dm-juriya.42493/ Without Borders, Christophe Deloire.

Ressa, 58, is https://xtremepape.rs/members/dmjuriya.315758/#about currently on bail pending an appeal against a conviction last year in a cyber libel case, for which she faces up to six years in prison. Speaking to FRANCE 24 live from Manila, she reacts to her win for what the Nobel committee called her "courageous fight for freedom of https://forums.prsguitars.com/members/dm-juriya.40426/ expression" in the Philippines.

The Nobel Peace https://mc-drugs.com/members/dmjuriya.24963/#about Prize was awarded on Friday to journalists Maria Ressa of the Philippines and Dmitry Muratov of Russia for their fight for freedom of expression in their countries. "Ms. Ressa and Mr. Muratov are receiving the Peace Prize for their courageous fight for freedom of expression in the Philippines and Russia," Chairwoman Berit Reiss-Andersen of the Norwegian Nobel https://www.scoop.it/u/dm-juriya Committee told a news conference.

"At the same time, https://letterboxd.com/dmjuriya/ they are representatives of all journalists who stand up for this ideal in a world in which democracy and freedom of the press face increasingly adverse conditions," she added. Ressa, 58, told Norwegian TV2 she was "shocked" and "emotional" to receive the honour, which she said would give her and her colleagues https://about.me/dmjuriya "tremendous energy to continue the fight."

In 2012, Ressa https://www.ques10.com/u/341458/dmjur931/? co-founded Rappler, a digital media company for investigative journalism, which she still heads, while Muratov is one of the founders of the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta. Rappler has "focused critical attention on the Duterte regime's controversial, murderous anti-drug campaign, https://www.dotafire.com/profile/dmjuriya-104735?profilepage" Reiss-Andersen said.

"The number of deaths https://www.degreeinfo.com/index.php?account-confirmation/95910/email&c=MN07KsvcCOWq3LIZ is so high that the campaign resembles a war waged against the country's own population," Reiss-Andersen said. >> Maria Ressa on The Interview: ‘Our rights, our democracy are at stake’, says Philippine journalist convicted of ‘cyberlibel’ Ressa and Rappler have also documented how social media is https://ello.co/dmjuriya/post/hiylr-jtw5ibn_d2o7zkew being used to spread fake news, harass opponents and manipulate public discourse.

Ressa, a former https://jozoo.co.uk/cv/101785 CNN correspondent who also holds US citizenship, is currently on bail pending an appeal against a conviction last year in a cyber libel case, for which she faces up to six years in prison. Muratov, 59, has defended freedom https://quomon.com/Question/Preview/3768670 of speech in Russia for decades, under increasingly challenging conditions.

In 1993, he was a founder https://moz.com/community/q/user/dmjuriya of Novaya Gazeta, which has a "fundamentally critical attitude towards power" the committee said. He has been its editor-in-chief since 1995. Co-founded by former Soviet leader and another Nobel Peace laureate Mikhail Gorbachev in 1993, Novaya Gazeta is one of the few https://player.me/dmjuriya/about media outlets left in Russia voicing criticism of President Vladimir Putin.

"This is good, very good news, https://myapnea.org/members/dmjuriya/posts " Gorbachev told reporters, calling Muratov a "courageous" journalist. Novaya Gazeta's opponents have responded with harassment, threats, violence and murder. Since the newspaper's start, six of its journalists have been killed, including Anna Politkovskaya who https://unloze.com/members/dmjuriya.6899/#about wrote revealing articles on the war in Chechnya.

"Despite the killings https://dribbble.com/shots/16653253-https-www-ipressusa-com-sponsered-eirtree-cbd-hypo?added_first_shot=true and threats, editor-in-chief Muratov has refused to abandon the newspaper's independent policy," Reiss-Andersen said. "He has consistently defended the right of journalists to write anything they want about whatever they https://pubhtml5.com/rmtw/rbxc/ want, as long as they comply with the professional and ethical standards of journalism."

Speaking to reporters https://www.weddingwire.com/website/dm-juriya-and-dmjuriya outside the Novaya Gazeta newsroom, Muratov dedicated the award to the paper's "fallen" journalists who "gave up their lives for their profession". He added that the prize should have gone instead to jailed Russian dissident Alexei Navalny – widely regarded as President Vladimir Putin’s most formidable critic, who was jailed in January upon his return to Russia, https://medium.com/@dmjuriya/https-www-ipressusa-com-sponsered-eirtree-cbd-hypo-2cb78832590c five months after he was poisoned with the nerve agent Novichok and transferred to Germany for medical treatment.

"I would have voted https://www.otosaigon.com/members/dmjuriya.361149/about for the person that the bookmakers were counting on, but I think that person has everything ahead of him. I am referring to Alexei Navalny," Muratov said. After the announcement on Friday, the United Nations' human rights office congratulated Ressa and Muratov on receiving the prize, saying it was "recognition of the importance of the work of journalists in https://neuroskillzclub.com/threads/eirtree-cbd-hypco.70091/ the most difficult circumstances".

"Throughout the https://www.webmastersun.com/members/dmjuriya.54343/#about years we've seen an increase in attacks in journalists during the Covid lockdown as well," spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani told journalists at a UN briefing in Geneva. "I think I’d speak for the High Commissioner (Michelle Bachelet) when I say congratulations to all journalists out there who are doing their job to keep us informed and to amplify the voices of https://www.techrum.vn/members/dmjuriya.172689/#about victims everywhere," she added.