MANILA (ANN): Barely two days after President Rodrigo Duterte barred him and another senator from entering the Philippines, US Senator Patrick Leahy responded by calling on the administration anew to release detained Senator Leila de Lima rather than “irrationally threatening to deny visas to American citizens.”
In a statement issued Sunday morning , Leahy also insisted that De Lima be given a fair and public trial if she would not be freed right away.
De Lima, one of President Rodrigo Duterte’s fiercest critics, has been in detention at the custodial centre of the Philippine National Police in Camp Crame, Quezon City since February 2017 over drug-related charges. The subsection referred to is the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act of the United States, which allows the US to sanction foreign government officials it sees as human rights abusers.
“The President is immediately ordering the Bureau of Immigration to deny US Senators Dick Durbin and Patrick Leahy, the imperious, uninformed and gullible American legislators who introduced the subject provision in the US 2020 Budget, entry to the Philippines, ” presidential spokesperson Salvador Panelo earlier said in a Palace briefing.
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