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ఎన్నికల నియామవళిని ఉల్లంఘిస్తే చర్యలు తప్పవని పాలనాధికారి ప్రద్యుమ్న ఎన్నికల సిబ్బందిని హెచ్చరించారు.
మాట్లాడుతున్న కలెక్టర్ ప్రద్యుమ్న
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Published : Feb 14, 2019, 4:50 PM IST
ఎన్నికల సంఘం నిబంధనలకు లోబడి పనిచేయాలని జిల్లా కలెక్టర్ ప్రద్యుమ్న (బూత్ లెవల్ ఆఫీసర్) బీఎల్వో లను ఆదేశించారు. నియామవళిని ఉల్లంఘిస్తే చర్యలు తప్పవని హెచ్చరించారు. తంబళ్లపల్లి... మదనపల్లి... పీలేరు నియోజకవర్గాల్లో ఎన్నికల నిర్వహణపై అవగాహన సదస్సు నిర్వహించారు. కలెక్టర్ మాట్లాడుతూ... సమష్టిగా పనిచేయాలని సూచించారు. దేశంలోనే చిత్తూరు జిల్లాను ప్రథమ స్థానంలో నిలపాలని విజ్ఞప్తి చేశారు.
ఎలక్ట్రానిక్ ఓటింగ్ యంత్రాలపై రాజకీయ పక్షాలు... ఓటర్లకు అవగాహన కల్పించాలని సూచించారు. ఓటర్ల జాబితా సక్రమంగా ఉంటే... ఎన్నికల విధులు 50 శాతం పూర్తయినట్లేనని పేర్కొన్నారు. ఎన్నికల సంఘం 1950 టోల్ ఫ్రీ నెంబర్ గురించి ప్రజలకు వివరించాలని ఆదేశించారు. జిల్లాలో 95 వేల దరఖాస్తులొచ్చాయన్న పాలనాధికారి... వీలైనంత త్వరగా పరిష్కరించాలని దిశానిర్దేశం చేశారు.
మాట్లాడుతున్న కలెక్టర్ ప్రద్యుమ్న
ఎన్నికల సంఘం నిబంధనలకు లోబడి పనిచేయాలని జిల్లా కలెక్టర్ ప్రద్యుమ్న (బూత్ లెవల్ ఆఫీసర్) బీఎల్వో లను ఆదేశించారు. నియామవళిని ఉల్లంఘిస్తే చర్యలు తప్పవని హెచ్చరించారు. తంబళ్లపల్లి... మదనపల్లి... పీలేరు నియోజకవర్గాల్లో ఎన్నికల నిర్వహణపై అవగాహన సదస్సు నిర్వహించారు. కలెక్టర్ మాట్లాడుతూ... సమష్టిగా పనిచేయాలని సూచించారు. దేశంలోనే చిత్తూరు జిల్లాను ప్రథమ స్థానంలో నిలపాలని విజ్ఞప్తి చేశారు.
ఎలక్ట్రానిక్ ఓటింగ్ యంత్రాలపై రాజకీయ పక్షాలు... ఓటర్లకు అవగాహన కల్పించాలని సూచించారు. ఓటర్ల జాబితా సక్రమంగా ఉంటే... ఎన్నికల విధులు 50 శాతం పూర్తయినట్లేనని పేర్కొన్నారు. ఎన్నికల సంఘం 1950 టోల్ ఫ్రీ నెంబర్ గురించి ప్రజలకు వివరించాలని ఆదేశించారు. జిల్లాలో 95 వేల దరఖాస్తులొచ్చాయన్న పాలనాధికారి... వీలైనంత త్వరగా పరిష్కరించాలని దిశానిర్దేశం చేశారు.
మాట్లాడుతున్న కలెక్టర్ ప్రద్యుమ్న RESTRICTION SUMMARY: AP CLIENTS ONLY
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Manila - 14 February 2019
1. Various of Maria Ressa, Head of Rappler Inc before the interview
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Maria Ressa, Head of Rappler Inc news site:
"I haven't really slept - maybe two hours or so, but, for a little bit high on adrenaline because of disbelief. You know, kind of - trying to figure out how could they really do this because there's a part of you that really believes in authority. You know that that rule of law exists."
++BLACK FRAMES++
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Maria Ressa, Head of Rappler Inc news site:
"We couldn't post bail because a crucial element of the arrest warrant was missing."
++BLACK FRAMES++
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Maria Ressa, Head of Rappler Inc news site:
"By 9 o'clock I went through some highs and lows already. By 9, I realised that this was, this had some malicious intent on those fronts."
++BLACK FRAMES++
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Maria Ressa, Head of Rappler Inc news site:
"Look, if the government wanted me to feel that it had power over me it made that very clear. I couldn't leave."
6. Cutaway
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Maria Ressa, Head of Rappler Inc news site:
"Oh good God, it absolutely is part of the big picture of intimidation and harassment."
++BLACK FRAMES++
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Maria Ressa, Head of Rappler Inc news site:
"There have been a lot of screwy little things and I started calling this death by a thousand cuts, both in my rights and I think in terms of the fabric of our democracy. It's not to say that I'm all that special because I'm not. I'm just one person but I'm a journalist and Rappler is an organisation of journalists. Our power emanates from the people where we help. Well, the pillar of democracy is when you have the freedom of the press that gives every Filipino citizen the right to information, to facts. And that allows us to hold the powerful to account. What we're seeing and what we've been seeing in the last administration is a level of impunity that, I mean frankly I haven't seen and I've been a journalist for more than 30 some odd years. I'm shocked."
++BLACK FRAMES++
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Maria Ressa, Head of Rappler Inc news site:
"I've called it the weaponisation of the law. If I was not targeted, I mean think about it now right, just in the cyber libel case itself, a story that was done seven years ago, months, four or five months before the actual law we allegedly violated was created. Then they came up with a concept called continuous publication which in and of itself is dangerous. But this now means that every Filipino who publishes on Facebook can be charged with continuous publication and cyber libel. It expands cyber libel in awfully scary ways, the same way that all the other cases stretch the law, and the law has been stretched so much that with this arrest it's broken."
++BLACK FRAMES++
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Maria Ressa, Head of Rappler Inc news site:
"As a journalist I've worked under dictatorship and even dictatorships have clearer rules they follow than where we are today."
++BLACK FRAMES++
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Maria Ressa, Head of Rappler Inc news site:
"We've gone through due diligence of the story. This case, again, of cyber libel was thrown out by the NBI (National Bureau of Investigation) itself, its own lawyers threw it out and then a week later was magically revived by the Department of Justice. If there is no political intent, the malicious arrest that was done last night, malicious in the sense that they came at 5 o'clock where they thought that I would not be able to post bail. We did find the one court that was open until 9 o'clock because we were prepared. But they made it so that the judge who had the jurisdiction to actually accept the bail whimsically decided not to."
++BLACK FRAMES++
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Maria Ressa, Head of Rappler Inc news site:
"Realising my own freedoms have been pushed back, my constitutional rights are being challenged and I think this is something that we all, I mean my team and I and our lawyers have to deal with, right. But. I'm not a victim. I think one of the things that I want to do is I will hold the government to account for its actions and if they're not used to being held to account, we will do our best to do that. I think the best defence is a good offence. You shine the light. And actions speak louder than words. So, we go back. We're journalists. We do our jobs. We're going to continue to report. We need to make sure that this, that for journalists, for the journalists in the Philippines in particular that the message, the subtle message that this government is trying to put down which is you know 'y'all better be careful. Stay silent. Otherwise you're going to be next.' Something that one of the NBI agents actually told one of our young reporters. That message needs to be responded to with far harder questions and reporting that will hold the powerful to account."
13. Journalists working at Rappler Inc
STORYLINE:
The award-winning head of a Philippine online news site that has aggressively covered President Rodrigo Duterte's administration accused the government of abusing its power and of using the law as a weapon to muzzle dissent.
"What we're seeing is death by a thousand cuts of our democracy," Ressa told the Associated Press in an interview on Thursday, after posting bail in the Manila regional trial court that issued a warrant for her arrest.
National Bureau of Investigation agents served the warrant against Maria Ressa late Wednesday afternoon and escorted her from the Rappler Inc. office to NBI headquarters, where she stayed overnight.
The move against Ressa, who was one of Time magazine's Persons of the Year last year, was denounced by her outfit, Rappler Inc., and media watchdogs as a threat to press freedom.
Duterte's government said the arrest was a normal step in response to a criminal complaint.
Duterte has openly lambasted journalists who write unfavourable stories about him, including about his anti-drug campaign that has left thousands of mostly poor suspects dead.
Rappler's 2012 article included allegations that a businessman was linked to illegal drugs, human trafficking and a murder case, citing an unspecified intelligence report.
The story also said a car registered in his name had been used by the country's chief justice, who was later ousted in an impeachment trial.
Rappler is one of several local and international news agencies deemed critical of Duterte's policies.
"I will hold the government to account for its actions and if they're not used to being held to account, we will do our best to do that," Ressa said.
"The subtle message that the government is trying to put down which is you know 'y'all better be careful. Stay silent. Otherwise you're going to be next.' That message needs to be responded to with far harder questions and reporting that will hold the powerful to account," she added.
Duterte had already banned a Rappler reporter from his news briefings after a government watchdog found that the news site violated a constitutional prohibition on foreign ownership of media when it received money from an international investment firm.
Rappler, founded in 2012, rejected the ruling.
In its selection of Ressa as a Person of the Year, Time magazine cited her and several other journalists as "guardians" in what it said was an effort to emphasise the importance of reporters' work in an increasingly hostile world.
Ressa, who has worked with CNN, also last year received a Press Freedom award from the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists, and the International Center for Journalists' Knight International Journalism Award.
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