Queens Rep. Meeks too close to ‘repressive’ Guyana regime, critics say

Queens Congressman Gregory Meeks is cozying up to a “repressive regime” in Guyana, claims a former political prisoner who said leaders of the South American country held him in solitary confinement for five years.

Mark Benschop, a Guyanese journalist who lives in New York, demonstrated outside the Democratic Rep’s district office in Queens in June to protest what he called close ties between Meeks and honchos of the alleged rights-violating People’s Progressive Party (PPP). “I organized the protest because I wanted to say to Gregory Meeks that as chairman of the foreign relations committee, he should exercise caution with them,” Benschop, 48, told The Post, referencing the lawmaker’s powerful post, which he’s held since December 2020.