'We will not sit idly if they continue to interfere with our process as a sovereign state,' Salvador Panelo, a spokesperson for the country's president, said.
Those measures were in turn taken in response to sanctions that the U.S. Congress recently passed imposing travel restrictions on individuals involved in the detention of the government official, Senator Leila de Lima.
De Lima is an outspoken critic of the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte and oversaw an inquiry into the government's mass killings of drug suspects. She was arrested in 2017 on drug trafficking-related charges which the human-rights group Amnesty International has called"politically motivated."
Duterte has previously called journalists"spies" when pressed about his human rights record. The president also routinely objects to outside criticism of how he has handled the illicit drug trade that, as of March, has killed an estimated 27,000 residents, many of them through extra-judicial means. For his part, Durbin previously spearheaded efforts to hold Duterte accountable for the documented abuses by his administration. In 2018, he met with the Philippine ambassador to discuss the country's commitments to human rights.
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