Filipino Journalist Gets Prison in Case Seen as Attack on Free Press

MANILA, Philippines — A Philippine court on Thursday convicted a journalist on charges of financing terrorism and sentenced her to more than a decade in prison, in a ruling that rights and press groups said was a blatant attack on press freedom. The Regional Trial Court in Tacloban City gave the journalist, Frenchie Mae Cumpio, [...]The post Filipino Journalist Gets Prison in Case Seen as Attack on Free Press appeared first on GV Wire.