{"id":144721,"date":"2018-01-09T01:28:56","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T06:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=144721"},"modified":"2018-01-09T01:28:56","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T06:28:56","slug":"joma-sison-denies-being-a-dutch-citizen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/09\/joma-sison-denies-being-a-dutch-citizen\/","title":{"rendered":"Joma Sison denies being a Dutch citizen"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jose Maria Sison, founder of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP). (Photo<\/a>: Jose Maria Sison\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Exiled Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founding Chairman Jose Ma. Sison on Tuesday denied that he has taken Dutch citizenship, contrary to the statement of Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have never applied for Dutch citizenship and have never been naturalized as a Dutch citizen,\u201d Sison said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Sison accused Roque, Ambag Bayan<\/em> Facebook page, and government-owned People\u2019s Television Network for spreading the \u201cfake news,\u201d saying that it was similar to earlier disinformation on his alleged arrest by Dutch authorities as a consequence of President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s Proclamation 374 against terrorism.<\/p>\n

He challenged legitimate mass media or any respectable person to verify the fact of his citizenship from the Dutch authorities in The Hague or the Dutch embassy in Manila.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn fact, my actual residence in The Netherlands is in accordance with my being a recognized political refugee since 1992, and also in accordance with Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Sison added that he can travel \u201cfor the purpose of peace negotiations under a laissez passer without having to be a Dutch citizen.\u201d<\/p>\n

The CPP leader and his wife Juliet have been living in exile in The Netherlands for decades after his Philippine passport was cancelled in 1987 under President Corazon Aquino.<\/p>\n

Roque, in a four-minute video posted on social media by a group named \u201cAmbag Bayan\u201d about a month ago, said Sison has taken up Dutch citizenship.<\/p>\n

\u201cI do not know the status of Joma (Sison) because Joma \u2026 I understand, has taken Dutch citizenship, he\u2019s a foreign national,\u201d Roque said.<\/p>\n

Embedded in the video are photo clips of Sison along with various women, implying that he was having a good life in Utrecht.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is exceedingly impertinent for my detractors in the Duterte regime to include in the film clip my photos with various beautiful persons over a period of two decades,\u201d Sison stressed.<\/p>\n

Referring to the photos, Sison said that those were taken during happy public occasions in which he and other invitees (overseas Filipino workers, academics and TV entertainment personalities) were \u201cproperly dressed and behave in a friendly way towards each other.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sison added that the \u201cthe objective of the Duterte propaganda machine in spreading fake news\u201d\u00a0against him aims to deflect attention from the \u201cmonstrous crimes of Duterte and his regime.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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