MANILA, Philippines --- Forty-one journalists from different news organizations on Tuesday filed a petition for intervention asking the Supreme Court (SC) to lift President Rodrigo Duterte's coverage ban against online news site Rappler. The petition was lodged before the high court after Rappler filed a petition questioning Duterte's coverage ban against them last April 11. The petitioners, headed by former SC spokesman and human rights lawyer Ted Te, explained that while they are not directly affected by the ban, the "nature of the President's ban on coverage is sufficiently expansive and elastic that their rights under Article III, section 4 have already been abridged." "...
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