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  "slug": "rodrigo-duterte",
  "name": "Rodrigo Duterte",
  "office": null,
  "role": "President of the Philippines",
  "country": "PH",
  "actor_url": "https://thewaronnews.com/actors/rodrigo-duterte",
  "incident_count": 3,
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    {
      "slug": "2018-philippines-bans-rappler-presidential-palace",
      "title": "Philippines: a Rappler reporter is barred from the presidential palace",
      "occurred_on": "2018-02-21",
      "occurred_on_precision": "day",
      "country": "PH",
      "country_name": "Philippines",
      "continent": "asia",
      "jurisdiction": "PH",
      "level": "national",
      "tactic_primary": "access_ban",
      "tactics": [
        "access_ban"
      ],
      "leader_slug": "rodrigo-duterte",
      "leader_name": "Rodrigo Duterte",
      "issue_of_the_day": "The ban followed the Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission's January 2018 revocation of Rappler's operating license over a foreign-ownership finding, a decision Rappler said was really aimed at its critical coverage of Duterte.",
      "outcome": "unknown",
      "outcome_on": "2018-02-21",
      "outcome_note": "The source reviewed reports only the ban taking effect and does not state whether or when it ended.",
      "stage": "pressure",
      "ladder_note": "The head of government personally ordered a named outlet's reporters excluded from the seat of government after revoking the outlet's corporate license.",
      "rsf": {
        "index": "RSF World Press Freedom Index",
        "year": 2026,
        "rank": 114,
        "of": 180,
        "label": "RSF 2026 rank: 114th of 180",
        "source_url": "https://rsf.org/en/index"
      },
      "era": "2010s",
      "granularity": "granular",
      "status": "in_effect",
      "case_count": 0,
      "summary": "President Rodrigo Duterte ordered Rappler reporter Pia Ranada and the outlet's CEO barred from Malacanang Palace, the seat of the Philippine presidency, after the government revoked Rappler's operating license.",
      "url": "https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2018-philippines-bans-rappler-presidential-palace"
    },
    {
      "slug": "2019-philippines-arrests-ressa",
      "title": "Philippines: Rappler's Maria Ressa arrested over cyber libel case",
      "occurred_on": "2019-02-13",
      "occurred_on_precision": "day",
      "country": "PH",
      "country_name": "Philippines",
      "continent": "asia",
      "jurisdiction": "PH",
      "level": "national",
      "tactic_primary": "detention_and_violence",
      "tactics": [
        "detention_and_violence"
      ],
      "leader_slug": "rodrigo-duterte",
      "leader_name": "Rodrigo Duterte",
      "issue_of_the_day": "Not stated in the sources reviewed.",
      "outcome": "reversed",
      "outcome_on": "2019-02-14",
      "outcome_note": "Ressa was released on bail the morning after her arrest; the underlying cyber libel case continued separately.",
      "stage": "punish",
      "ladder_note": "Philippine agents arrested an outlet's executive editor at her own newsroom over a story published years before the cybercrime law used to charge her existed; United States detentions in the record ended without charges filed.",
      "rsf": {
        "index": "RSF World Press Freedom Index",
        "year": 2026,
        "rank": 114,
        "of": 180,
        "label": "RSF 2026 rank: 114th of 180",
        "source_url": "https://rsf.org/en/index"
      },
      "era": "2010s",
      "granularity": "granular",
      "status": "historical",
      "case_count": 0,
      "summary": "Philippine agents arrested Rappler executive editor Maria Ressa at the outlet's Manila office and held her overnight on a cyber libel case tied to a 2012 story, published before the cybercrime law used to charge her existed.",
      "url": "https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2019-philippines-arrests-ressa"
    },
    {
      "slug": "2020-philippines-ressa-cyber-libel-conviction",
      "title": "Philippines: Maria Ressa convicted of cyber libel",
      "occurred_on": "2020-06-15",
      "occurred_on_precision": "day",
      "country": "PH",
      "country_name": "Philippines",
      "continent": "asia",
      "jurisdiction": "PH",
      "level": "national",
      "tactic_primary": "lawsuits_against_press",
      "tactics": [
        "lawsuits_against_press"
      ],
      "leader_slug": "rodrigo-duterte",
      "leader_name": "Rodrigo Duterte",
      "issue_of_the_day": "Not stated in the sources reviewed.",
      "outcome": "ongoing",
      "outcome_on": "2020-06-15",
      "outcome_note": "Ressa and Santos were convicted and sentenced but remained free pending appeal, according to the source reviewed.",
      "stage": "punish",
      "ladder_note": "A court convicted an outlet's executive editor of criminal cyber libel and imposed a prison sentence over a story published before the cybercrime law existed; United States lawsuits against the press in the record are civil, seeking damages, not prison time.",
      "rsf": {
        "index": "RSF World Press Freedom Index",
        "year": 2026,
        "rank": 114,
        "of": 180,
        "label": "RSF 2026 rank: 114th of 180",
        "source_url": "https://rsf.org/en/index"
      },
      "era": "2020s",
      "granularity": "granular",
      "status": "in_effect",
      "case_count": 0,
      "summary": "A Manila court convicted Rappler's Maria Ressa and researcher Reynaldo Santos Jr. of criminal cyber libel and sentenced them to up to six years in prison, over a 2012 story republished after the cybercrime law used to charge them took effect.",
      "url": "https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2020-philippines-ressa-cyber-libel-conviction"
    }
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  "license": {
    "name": "CC BY 4.0",
    "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
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