After previously denying Maria Ressa's bid to travel outside the country, the Court of Appeals Eighth Division hearing the appeal to her cyber libel conviction allowed her to travel to the US for a program at Harvard and visit her parents in Florida. How did the court rule? 
CA said Ressa was able to prove the necessity & urgency of her travel. The invitation letter from Harvard shows the program requires her physical presence for 30 days. CA also considered humanitarian grounds to allow her to visit her parents whom she had not seen for 2 years.
In Dec. last year, the same court had blocked Ressa's bid to visit her ailing mother who was due for an operation, saying she failed to prove the necessity and urgency of her travel | via @mikenavallo
CA now says denial of previous motions are inconsequential | via @mikenavallo
BACKGROUND: news.abs-cbn.com/news/12/24/20/…
BACKGROUND: news.abs-cbn.com/news/12/24/20/…
CA also found Ressa successfully proved she's not a flight risk, citing her itinerary, her strong economic ties to PH as Rappler CEO and her undisputed compliance with court-imposed conditions in her previous travels.
Read @mikenavallo's full thread here:
https://twitter.com/mikenavallo/status/1454978379027869698
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