MANILA, Philippines --- Sen. Richard Gordon on Saturday took issue with the evening arrest of Rappler's chief executive officer Maria Ressa by National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) agents as the timing did not give Ressa a chance to post bail. "Ayoko yung ginawa ng NBI --- yung titirahin mo yung hindi makapag-bail dahil gabi na," Gordon said in an interview over AM radio station DWIZ. [I don't want what the NBI did --- that you get someone who could not post bail because it's already evening.] "That is why there is a law on getting arrested on weekends," he added. Though Ressa was arrested on a Wednesday, Gordon said: "Ganun na rin yun. Sa gabi mape-pressure ka. Wala kan...
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