Rappler calls decision to overturn shutdown order ‘vindication after a tortuous eight years of harassment’.
A Philippine court has ordered the country’s corporate regulator to restore the licence of Rappler, a news site co-founded by Nobel laureate Maria Ressa, a prominent critic of former President Rodrigo Duterte.
Ressa and Rappler have been fighting multiple court cases filed during Duterte’s administration.
The Court of Appeals, in a decision dated July 23 but only released to the…