The United States’ (US) Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy said that the Philippine Government should either release Senator Leila De Lima from Prison, or give her a fair, Public Trial instead of threatening Visa restrictions to US Citizens visiting the Philippines.
Note that Leahy is being banned from entering the Philippines for sponsoring a Provision in the US’ 2020 Budget sanctioning Philippine officials for jailing De Lima.
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For me, the thing to remember here is that De Lima is not even a US Citizen, she is a Philippine Citizen, hence the US has no right to interfere with our internal affairs. If De Lima was a US Citizen, then the US has the right to protest, but she is not.
Note that Leahy is being banned from entering the Philippines for sponsoring a Provision in the US’ 2020 Budget sanctioning Philippine officials for jailing De Lima.
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For me, the thing to remember here is that De Lima is not even a US Citizen, she is a Philippine Citizen, hence the US has no right to interfere with our internal affairs. If De Lima was a US Citizen, then the US has the right to protest, but she is not.
This habit of sanctioning Government Officials of other Countries based on what they do to their Citizens recently started with Sergei Magnitzky, a Russian Citizen who was jailed by Vladimir Putin and later died in Jail in 2009.
Magnitzky turned out to have powerful friends in the US, so much so that the Obama Administration in 2012 ended up creating a law named after Magnitzky so the US can impose sanctions on other countries based on what they do to their own Citizens
SOURCES:
* One News Official Facebook Page Post - Dec. 29, 2019, 1322H
* The Case of Sergei Magnitsky: Questions Cloud Story Behind U.S. Sanctions
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