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A SEPARATE AMENDMENT TO THE STATE AND FOREIGN OPERATIONS BILL OF THE US 2020 BUDGET DIRECTING THE US STATE DEPARTMENT TO IMPOSE THE MAGNITSKY SANCTIONS ON DE LIMA JAILERS WAS SPONSORED BY US SENATORS RICHARD DURBIN AND PATRICK LEAHY. TRUMP SIGNED THE US 2020 BUDGET INTO LAW IN DECEMBER LAST YEAR.
THE LIST RELEASED EARLIER BY DE LIMA ARE JUST NAMES. THERE ARE THIRTEEN NAMES ON THE LIST: PRESIDENT RODRIGO DUTERTE, PANELO, FORMER HOUSE SPEAKER PANTALEON ALVAREZ, REPRESENTATIVES REY UMALI AND RUDY FARINAS, SOLICITOR GENERAL JOSE CALIDA, FORMER JUSTICE SECRETARY VITALIANO AGUIRRE II, PUBLIC ATTORNEYS OFFICE CHIEF PERSIDA ACOSTA, FORMER PRESIDENTIAL COMMUNICATIONS OPERATIONS OFFICE ASSISTANT SECRETARY MOCHA USON, PHILIPPINE CHARITY SWEEPSTAKES OFFICE BOARD MEMBER SANDRA CAM, PRESIDENTIAL ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION CHAIR DANTE JIMENEZ, NETHERLANDS-BASED PRO-DUTERTE BLOGGER SASS ROGANDO SASOT, AND PRO-DUTERTE BLOGGER RJ NIETO.
US SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 142, WHICH PASSED THE FOREIGN RELATIONS PANEL ON DECEMBER 11, IS ALREADY UP FOR PLENARY DEBATES THIS MONTH, DE LIMA』S CHIEF OF STAFF ATTY. FHILLIP SAWALI SAID THURSDAY. THE RESOLUTION PUSHES FOR THE IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF THE SENATOR, WHO WAS ARRESTED IN 2017 ON CHARGES OF SUPPOSED LINKS TO ILLEGAL DRUG CIRCULATION IN THE NEW BILIBID PRISON DURING HER TIME AS JUSTICE SECRETARY.
US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP HAS SIGNED INTO LAW THE NATION’S 2020 BUDGET, WHICH INCLUDES A CLAUSE ALLOWING THE US SECRETARY OF STATE TO BAN THE ENTRY OF PHILIPPINE OFFICIALS BEHIND THE DETENTION OF ONE OF PRESIDENT RODRIGO R. DUTERTE’S STAUNCHEST CRITICS.
MANILA – PRESIDENT RODRIGO DUTERTE IS UNFLUSTERED BY THE UNITED STATES’ (US) MOVE TO DENY ENTRY TO PHILIPPINE OFFICIALS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DETENTION OF SENATOR LEILA DE LIMA, MALACAÑANG SAID THURSDAY.
BUT TRACING THE PROHIBITION REQUIRES “MORE DUE DILIGENCE” THAN JUST SCRUTINIZING THE FINAL BUDGET BILL SIGNED INTO LAW BY US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP LAST DEC. 20, SAID DE LIMA, WHOSE 2-YEAR DETENTION HAS BEEN CONDEMNED BY SEVERAL AMERICAN LAWMAKERS.
"ALL OF US, AS FILIPINOS, SHOULD FEEL THE INDIGNITY," SAID JUSTICE SECRETARY MENARDO GUEVARRA IN A RARE OUTBURST, WITH THE UNCHARACTERISTIC CUSS WORD, WHEN HE REACTED TO THE NEWS THAT US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP HAD APPROVED THE US 2020 BUDGET THAT CONTAINS A PROVISION GIVING THE STATE DEPARTMENT THE GO-SIGNAL TO DENY ENTRY TO THE JAILERS OF OPPOSITION SENATOR LEILA DE LIMA.
WITH UNITED STATES PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP RECENTLY SIGNING A LAW CONTAINING A PROVISION THAT WILL BAN HER JAILERS FROM SETTING FOOT IN US, SENATOR LEILA DE LIMA HOPES THIS CHRISTMAS WILL BE THE LAST SHE WILL SPEND BEHIND BARS.
DE LIMA PREVIOUSLY NAMED THE FOLLOWING AS RESPONSIBLE BEHIND HER DETENTION FOR DRUG-RELATED CHARGES: PRESIDENT RODRIGO DUTERTE, PRESIDENTIAL SPOKESPERSON SALVADOR PANELO, FORMER PRESIDENTIAL COMMUNICATIONS OPERATIONS OFFICE OFFICIAL MOCHA USON, SASS ROGANDO SASOT, AND RJ NIETO, FORMER HOUSE SPEAKER PANTALEON ALVAREZ, FORMER JUSTICE SECRETARY VITALIANO AGUIRRE II, SOLICITOR GENERAL JOSE CALIDA, PUBLIC ATTORNEYS OFFICE CHIEF PERSIDA ACOSTA, SANDRA CAM, DANTE JIMENEZ, REPRESENTATIVES REY UMALI AND RUDY FARINAS.
(AS FOR DE LIMA’S DETENTION, HAVING BEEN ALLEGEDLY INVOLVED IN THE TRADING OF ILLEGAL DRUGS BY NO LESS THAN CONVICTED DRUG LORDS, SHE HAD IT COMING. IT’S KARMA, REALLY—WHAT GOES AROUND, COMES AROUND. RECALL THAT DESPITE A SUPREME COURT DECISION THAT AFFIRMED FORMER PRESIDENT GLORIA MACAPAGAL ARROYO’S RIGHT TO TRAVEL, SHE WAS PREVENTED FROM LEAVING THE COUNTRY AND WAS KEPT ON HOSPITAL ARREST FOR FOUR YEARS DURING THE PRESIDENCY OF BS AQUINO. DE LIMA WAS THEN SECRETARY OF JUSTICE.)
“THE MOST CONSISTENT AND DANGEROUS HEALTH EFFECTS IDENTIFIED HAVE BEEN CARDIOVASCULAR AND RESPIRATORY DISEASES, WHICH ARE THE LEADING CAUSES OF HOSPITALIZATION, EMERGENCY ROOM VISIT, AND EVEN DEATH,” WEI ADDED.

 

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