Engel Calls for U.S. Action on Duterte's Assaults on Press Freedom
June 27, 2020
June 27, 2020
WASHINGTON, June 27 -- Rep. Eliot L. Engel, D-New York, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following news release:
Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, yesterday called on the State Department to take action on Philippines' President Rodrigo Duterte's attacks on press freedoms. In a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Engel raised the politically motivated sentencing of journalists Maria Ressa and Reynaldo . . .
Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, yesterday called on the State Department to take action on Philippines' President Rodrigo Duterte's attacks on press freedoms. In a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Engel raised the politically motivated sentencing of journalists Maria Ressa and Reynaldo . . .