De Lima: US ‘determined the fact of my persecution’

MANILA, Philippines — The United States government, including US President Donald Trump himself, has acknowledged Sen. Leila de Lima’s “persecution” by signing a new budget law which

includes a provision barring the entry in the United States of Philippine officials behind her detention, she pointed out on Tuesday.

The provision she cited from the budget bill that Trumped signed into law on Friday referred to the “wrongful imprisonment” of De Lima as well as Mustafa Kassem, an American detainee in Egypt.

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