ICYMI: Nobel Peace Price awardee and Rappler CEO Maria Ressa has left for the U.S. following the Court of Appeals’ decision granting her request to attend a program at Harvard University, and at the same time, visit her parents in Florida.
The Office of the Solicitor General tried to block Ressa’s travel bid staying there is no “absolute necessity and urgency” for her to travel to the US. The OSG added that the fact that Ressa has been criticizing her cyber libel conviction and the fact that she has dual citizenship makes her a flight risk.
But the Court of Appeals, in denying the bid of the OSG said the arguments it has raised in its motion for reconsideration are a mere reiteration of their comments “which we have exhaustively passed upon.” The appeals court said the OSG’s claim that Ressa’s dual citizenship and alleged lack of respect for the country’s judicial system makes her a flight risk is speculative.
“The Office of the Solicitor General failed to present compelling reasons to warrant a reconsideration of the Oct. 18, 2021 resolution,” the appeals court said.
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