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EXCLUSIVE: More than 50 emails, texts were sent between Rappler & Wilfredo Keng’s lawyer, requesting for fair coverage. | via @Nikobaua

@Nikobaua Keng requested Rappler to include his side or to take down the online article. Keng’s counsel, Atty. Ryan Cruz, claims Rappler did not grant their request. | via @Nikobaua

@Nikobaua Rappler’s online article cited an intelligence report claiming that Keng was involved in drugs, trafficking, other criminal activity.
Atty. Leonard De Vera wrote to Maritess Vitug in Aug 2016 and attached a PDEA certification that Keng was not involved in illegal drugs| @Nikobaua

@Nikobaua De Vera requested Vitug that the PDEA certification be included the online article. After several follow ups from De Vera, a Rappler reporter replied to De Vera that an updated article was written and that it was already with the editor. | via @Nikobaua

@Nikobaua From August 2016 to November 2017, Keng’s lawyer says they waited for Rappler to update the article and even offered to set an interview with Keng. Rappler, however, did not update the online article. | via @Nikobaua

@Nikobaua Atty. Cruz explained that it was important for Keng to clear his name during that time when the war on drugs was launched. He clarified that Keng has nothing to do with illegal drugs and that Rappler’s one sided article tarnished his reputation as a businessman. | @Nikobaua

@Nikobaua Keng’s lawyers say they exhausted all efforts in requesting Rappler to update the article and had no recourse but to file a complaint in the National Bureau of Investigation. They explained that this case is about Rappler’s accountability and not about press freedom | @Nikobaua

@Nikobaua Rappler has repeatedly stood by the online article that they published. Maria Ressa also claimed that it was the lawyers of Keng who threatened her. Ressa insists that this is about the administration’s suppression against Rappler and press freedom. | via @Nikobaua