Sison dismisses loss of asylum status at The Netherlands over PH terror tag

COMMUNIST Party of the Philippines (CPP) founding chairman Jose Maria “Joma” Sison dismissed statements that he would lose his asylum status following President Rodrigo Duterte’s proclamation that the CPP and its armed wing, the New People’s Army (NPA), were terror groups.

Sison was responding to analyst Ramon Casiple and Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano’s pronouncements last week that the exiled communist leader his asylum status in The Netherlands was at risk if the Philippine government would be able to get a regional trial court to officially declare the CPP-NPA as terrorists.