Sen. Menendez, Six Senate Colleagues Call on Kyrgyzstan President to Release Prisoners
May 09, 2020
May 09, 2020
WASHINGTON, May 9 -- Sen. Robert Menendez, D-New Jersey, issued the following news release on May 8:
U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was joined by six of his Senate colleagues in calling on the President of Kyrgyzstan Soonbay Jeenbekov to release detainees currently serving sentences for peaceful activism.
The Senators affirmed that "Individuals should never be imprisoned for exercising their rights of . . .
U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was joined by six of his Senate colleagues in calling on the President of Kyrgyzstan Soonbay Jeenbekov to release detainees currently serving sentences for peaceful activism.
The Senators affirmed that "Individuals should never be imprisoned for exercising their rights of . . .