CA OKs Ressa US travel

MANILA, Philippines — The Court of Appeals (CA) yesterday allowed Rappler chief executive officer Maria Ressa to travel to the United States to personally receive her Woodrow Wilson Award.

In a five-page resolution, the appellate court’s Special Seventh Division granted Ressa’s urgent motion to travel to New Jersey from Feb. 17 until Feb. 22.

Associate Justice Geraldine Fiel-Macaraig signed the resolution, with the concurrence of Associate Justices Marlene Gonzales-Sison and Bonifacio Pascua.

Ressa will receive the 2022 Woodrow Wilson Award tomorrow at Princeton University where she graduated with a degree in Bachelor of Arts in English in 1986.

Ressa and her co-accused Reynaldo Santos Jr. were found guilty of cyber libel by a Manila court. They filed an appeal before the CA.