MANILA, Dec 22, 2014 (AFP) - Detained former Philippines president Gloria Arroyo will be allowed home for Christmas after a court decided to show "compassion" ahead of Pope Francis’s visit to the country next month.
Arroyo has been under arrest since 2011 on charges of vote-rigging and corruption and is being held in a government hospital where she is receiving treatment for a rare bone disease.
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