Maria Ressa, co-founder and CEO of the Philippines-based news website Rappler, speaks to members of the media as she leaves after a hearing in a court in Manila on Dec. 16, 2019.
MANILA - High-profile Philippine journalist Maria Ressa was convicted Monday in a cyber libel case that press freedom advocates have branded a ploy to silence critics of President Rodrigo Duterte.
The verdict was handed down in a Manila courtroom against Ressa, who heads the news site Rappler, and she will be allowed to post bail.