Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte arrives at an event with Filipino community in Hong Kong, China, April 12, 2018. Credit: Bobby Yip/Reuters
Philippine immigration authorities on Sunday denied entry and deported a Socialist Party official from the European Union, who had criticized President Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal, anti-drugs crackdown.
Giacomo Filibeck, deputy secretary-general of the Party of European Socialists (PES), was denied entry at the Mactan-Cebu International Airport in the central Philippines for illegal political activity, an official and local party Akbayan said.
Filibeck was due to attend the two-day Akbayan Party Congress with about 20 other foreign delegates but was stopped at the immigration counter and handed a slip of paper informing him of a blacklist order, according to Akbayan statement.
