Updated: 10:45 am PST
"#US offers belated ‘concern’ over #Philippines journalist case"https://t.co/Hpn5rfPb0b
— Matt Lee (@APDiploWriter) June 16, 2020
Very little, very late. pic.twitter.com/mv9FRgaxat
— Nahal Toosi (@nahaltoosi) June 16, 2020
I have been asking the @statedept for comment/reaction to Maria Ressa’s conviction in the #Philippines since early this morning. Silence, in contrast to very speedy condemnation of Paul Whelan’s conviction in #Russia from @SecPompeo.
Maybe others have had better luck. https://t.co/xs61pB0pOB— Matt Lee (@APDiploWriter) June 16, 2020
Prominent Filipino-American journalist @mariaressa is heading to court to receive the results of a libel case gain at her today in Manila. She has weathered multiple storms that saw the country’s controversial president Duterte tried to lock her up. https://t.co/gJtb8e9wVO
— William Yang (@WilliamYang120) June 15, 2020
“When you say a lie a million times it becomes a fact.”@mariaressa on why you should care about the kind of disinformation her and her team at @rappler are working against.
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— Studio B Unscripted (@AJSBUnscripted) June 15, 2020
A Moscow court found an American man, Paul Whelan, guilty of spying and sentenced him to 16 years in prison Monday, drawing a sharp rebuke from U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo https://t.co/BhP57lz2mr
— Bloomberg Politics (@bpolitics) June 15, 2020
Outraged by the decision today to convict Paul Whelan on the basis of a secret trial, with secret evidence, and without appropriate allowances for defense witnesses. Paul’s treatment by Russian authorities continues to be appalling, and we demand his immediate release.
— Secretary Pompeo (@SecPompeo) June 15, 2020