GARDERMOEN, Norway: Philippine journalist Maria Ressa, this year’s co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, on Wednesday urged fellow reporters to defend their rights in order not to lose them to "authoritarian-style leaders and budding dictators."
"It has become incredibly hard and far more dangerous for every one of us," Ressa told reporters awaiting her arrival at Oslo’s airport ahead of Friday’s Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, where she will be honoured alongside Dmitry Muratov of Russia. Ressa, the co-founder of the investigative news site Rappler, and Muratov, a co-founder of Russia’s leading independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta, were given the award in October for their efforts to "safeguard freedom of expression".
Criticising "our authoritarian-style leaders and budding dictators" who "want us to voluntarily give up our rights", Ressa urged journalists to defend their rights. "Now more than ever we need to protect our rights, otherwise we will lose them," she said. "When facts are under threat, when you don’t have integrity of facts, you cannot have integrity of elections. So it begins with us, we must keep getting the facts and serving the people," the former CNN correspondent said. Ressa, 58, is a staunch critic of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and his government’s policies, including a drug war that has killed thousands.
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