Malacañang has welcomed a scheduled “Black Friday” protest that calls for defending press freedom in the Philippines.
Palace spokesman Harry Roque was referring to the protest organized by the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines four days after the state-run Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ordered the closure of online news organization Rappler for allegedly violating the constitutional ban on having foreigners as owners of a media entity.
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