Rappler CEO Maria Ressa left for the United States on Sunday, her news agency said, after the Court of Appeals allowed her to attend a program at Harvard University and visit her parents there.
The CA Eighth Division, which hears Ressa’s appeal to her cyber libel conviction, allowed her to travel to Boston from Oct. 31 to Dec. 2 to attend a 30-day program, saying she was able to prove her travel is necessary and urgent and that she is not a flight risk.Ressa was required to post a P500,000-bond and to submit an updated itinerary.
“Certainly, one’s legitimate intention to be reunited with her/his parents cannot be doubted,” it said. She also faulted Ressa for not immediately disclosing her mother’s medical condition and for supposedly concealing previous incidental travels. Now, the CA is referring to her previous compliance, rejecting the Office of the Solicitor General’s position that Ressa is a flight risk due to her dual citizenship and her alleged lack of respect for the Philippine judicial system.
The OSG also said that instead of visiting her parents, she could use "available online and technological applications."
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