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  Encyclopedia: Jose Maria Sison   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Sison's asylum case, citing with approval textbook writers and Dutch immigration law experts Spijkerboer and Vermeulen, said the interpretation of Art 15 (2) of the Aliens Law of the Netherlands that the Dutch government argued for and which the REK upheld was inconsistent with the intention of the legistator that crafted the law.
Sison's case for delisting, the Council of the European Union urges that a distinction be made between the effects of fllisting and those of a criminal conviction, between sanctions or "restrictive measures" attendant to fllisting and punishment or "punitive measures" imposed after a criminal proceeding.
José Maria Sison, born 8 February 1939 in Cabugao, Ilocos Sur, is a writer, intellectual, and academic, and the founder of the Communist Party of the Philippines.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Jose-Maria-Sison   (991 words)

  
 Jose Maria Sison - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
José Maria Sison, born February 8, 1939 in Cabugao, Ilocos Sur, is a writer, intellectual, and the founder of the Communist Party of the Philippines.
A graduate of the University of the Philippines in 1959, he studied in Indonesia, before returning to the Philippines to settle as a university professor.
Since 1987, Sison has resided in the Netherlands where he is seeking asylum as a political refugee.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Maria_Sison   (304 words)

  
 PRESS
Jose Maria Sison who is perceived by the US and Philippine governments, rightly or wrongly, as the most respected and effective theoretician of the national democratic movement, are the two governments harboring under the illusion that Prof.
Sison's persecutors and their misguided allies and camp followers that these rights are non-derogable and cannot be impaired, abridged, or suspended by state action in the name of national security or emergency situations.
Sison as a terrorist, the governments of the United States, The Netherlands and the Philippines and the Council of the European Union grossly violated this important legal safeguard by acting as Sison's accusers, false witnesses, prosecutors, judges and executioners all at the same time in a summary, ex parte and secret hearing.
www.inps-sison.freewebspace.com /RTConJMS.htm   (2284 words)

  
 LAWS, LABELS AND LIBERATION: The Case of Prof. Jose Maria Sison : QC IMC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Sison applied to be admitted to the Netherlands as a political refugee and for a permit to stay therein.
Sison by the Council of the European Union was accomplished through the combined efforts of the Dutch government and the Philippine government both of which admitted to lobbying the various European foreign ministers for this purpose.
Sison's case for delisting, the Council of the European Union urges that a distinction be made between the effects of fllisting and those of a criminal conviction, between sanctions or "restrictive measures" attendant to fllisting and punishment or "punitive measures" imposed after a criminal proceeding.
qc.indymedia.org /print.php?id=789   (6873 words)

  
 Jose Maria Sison in the dead end   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Jose Maria Sison was born on February 8th, 1939 as a son of a conservative big landowner family in the little town of Cabugao in northern Luzon.
Sison characterizes the Philippines as a "semi feudal and semi colonial country ruthlessly exploited by the American imperialists", in his book "Filipino Society and Revolution", which is published under the pseudonym Amado Guerro two years later.
Sison turns the tables: For him the USA are terror state of number 1, because its representatives would have killed 1.4 million Filipinos in the war between 1899 and 1914 and because they incited the dictatorship of Marcos and equipped his military with weapons.
home.arcor.de /be/bethge/sisoneng.htm   (5485 words)

  
 Project DIANA :   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Sison testified that during interrogation on November 13, 1977, while he was blindfolded and shackled, he was subjected to excruciatingly painful fist blows to the upper part of his chest and on his floating ribs and solar plexus.
Sison made clear in their opening argument that they did not intend to repeat evidence already submitted to the jury in the liability phase and that no additional evidence of damages would be introduced at the compensatory damages phase of the trial.
Jose Maria Sison testified that he was detained in isolation, manacled to a cot by his limbs, in a small boarded up cell with no natural light for 18 months.
www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/diana/sison/16779.htm   (8742 words)

  
 November, 2004 update on the struggle of Jose Maria Sison and similar refugees facing "terrorist" tag
Jose Maria Sison's appeals against the Dutch Minister of Finance and the COA (Central Organ for Reception of Asylum Seekers) were taken up at the court hearing at the Utrecht Court on 29 October 2004 at the Vrouwe Justitiaplein 1 in Utrecht.
Sison, started with the statement that the issue at hand was how, in a modern democratic society, the minimal fundamental rights of an individual must be protected or cannot be protected.
Sison may not be expelled, there is indeed in a farreaching manner a "detournement de pouvoir" (abuse of power) by the Dutch authorities who must be considered as negligent and improper.
www.etext.org /Politics/MIM/agitation/philippines/sisonupdate1104.html   (1179 words)

  
 SISON   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Jose Maria Sison was born on February 8th, 1939 in Cabugao, Philippines.
Sison wanted to spend the rest of his life defending the rights of the poor in the Philippines.
Sison's goal was to free Filipino people through the alliance of workers, farmers, and other progressive groups.
www.mtholyoke.edu /%7Eaefrazie/world%20politics116/terrorist_groups/NPA/Sison.htm   (282 words)

  
 PRESS
Sison is a political refugee with a well-grounded fear of persecution in the sense of the Refugee Treaty of Geneva.
Sison, who is already adjudged a political refugee, the high officials of the Manila government which has fed defamatory information against him are publicly offering high positions to him in a futile attempt to lure him back to the Philippines under their terms.
Sison is a genuine political refugee as defined by the Refugee Treaty of Geneva and that he cannot be sent back to the Philippines because he is protected by the Article 3 of European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.
www.inps-sison.freewebspace.com /atsICASF.htm   (5343 words)

  
 Prof. Jose Maria Sison has a well-grounded fear of persecution : QC IMC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Jose Maria Sison, founding chair of the Communist Party of the Philippines and one of the sharpest critics of the regime and the military, will be risking his life if he returns to the Philippines.
Sison has a well-grounded fear of persecution and is therefore a political refugee according to Article 1A of the Refugee Convention and that he is covered by the absolute protection of Article 3 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (EVRM).
Sison has not been revoked, despite the fact that the GRP-NDFP Joint Agreement on Safety and Immunity Guarantees (JASIG) of 1995 forbids such a punitive action against all negotiators, consultants and staff of the NDFP in the peace negotiations.
qc.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=2422   (521 words)

  
 Interview with Jose Maria Sison, target of the U.$. "war on terrorism" : LA IMC
Jose Maria Sison to be a "terrorist" on August 12, 2002 and asked other governments to freeze his assets and restrict his travel.
SISON: The panelists, consultants, staffers and supporters of the NDFP negotiating panel are well aware of the actions and threats publicly and discreetly directed against me. They also know why these are being done.
SISON: It is true that the Bush administration is trying to put the Filipino community in the United States under a climate of fear.
la.indymedia.org /print.php?id=21823   (1901 words)

  
 RW ONLINE:Political Refugee Status for Jose Maria Sison Denied
Sison is a political refugee with "a well-founded fear of persecution" and that he should not be sent back to the Philippines.
Sison was taken prisoner by the military in 1977 and was imprisoned until the Marcos regime fell in 1986.
Sison was a major participant in an international conference on Mao Tsetung that took place during the Centenary of Mao's birth in 1993.
rwor.org /a/v19/920-29/927/sison.htm   (824 words)

  
 PRWC Special Section - In Defense of Jose Maria Sison
Jose Maria Sison who is being persecuted by the US and Dutch governments.
Sison and restore all his rights as a recognized political refugee that has been curtailed as a result of his being listed as a terrorist.
Sison and other Filipino revolutionaries in The Netherlands who are being persecuted as "terrorists" by the Dutch and US governments.
prwc.netfirms.com /def_jms/020924.nbe.shtml   (433 words)

  
 Freedom Road Socialist Organization | Interview with Jose Maria Sison, Dec. 25, 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Jose Maria Sison led the re-founding of the Communist Party of the Philippines in the late 1960s.
Comrade Sison led the struggle in the rural areas until he was captured by the dictatorial Marcos regime in 1976.
Jose Maria Sison (JMS): Persevere in carrying out the ideological, political and organizational tasks for developing the revolutionary movement in the imperialist countries and for supporting the revolutionary movements in oppressed countries.
www.frso.org /campaign/antiwar/sisonint20031225.htm   (1791 words)

  
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Sison and his family are indeed political refugees who have been and continue to be persecuted for their political beliefs and whose lives are consequently in grave danger should they be sent back to the Philippines.
Sison, are the ones known to have instigated, implemented and defended these "anti-infiltration" campaigns.
Meantime, Sison's accusers deliberately skip or obscure the fact that since his release from military detention in 1986, he has consistently criticized and denounced Kahos and other similar campaigns as well as errors and weaknesses of the revolutionary movement which underlay such mindless campaigns.
www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/Lobby/4677/asylum.htm   (786 words)

  
 [Nasional-e] Fw: DEFEND THE RIGHTS OF PROF. JOSE MARIA SISON Petition (4)
Jose Maria Sison is living in the Netherlands as a = recognized political refugee under the protection of the Refugee = Convention and the European Convention for the Protection of Human = Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.=20 Prof.
Sison is the General Consultant of International League of = Peoples' Struggle (ILPS) and has been the chief political consultant of = the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) in peace = negotiations with the Government of the Republic of the Philippines = (GRP).
Jose Maria Sison is = living in=20 the Netherlands as a recognized political refugee under the protection = of the=20 Refugee Convention and the European Convention for the Protection of = Human=20 Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.
www.polarhome.com /pipermail/nasional-e/2002-October/000136.html   (963 words)

  
 RW ONLINE: New Threats to José-Maria Sison
Since 1988, Sison has lived as a political refugee in the Netherlands after he was forced to go into exile because of government persecution and threats against his life in the Philippines.
Sison said, "What makes Macapagal-Arroyo and her cabinet officials most ridiculous is that they have trumped up murder charges that are so patently false and so clearly politically motivated...
And the attacks on Comrade Sison are part of the efforts of the U.S. imperialists and their lackeys to use their "war on terrorism" as justification to target revolutionaries and all those who refuse to cave in to them.
rwor.org /a/v24/1181-1190/1186/sison.htm   (865 words)

  
 PRWC Special Section - In Defense of Jose Maria Sison   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Sison's legal battle to have himself removed from the terrorist fllists maintained by the Council of the European Union, the United States and other countries largely because of its significance to international law and human rights.
Sison cannot invoke the due process rights of the accused because he is not accused of terrorism or of any crime, he is "simply" fllisted.
Sison, the only Filipino subjected to such draconian measures by virtue of his designation in the fllists, must be upheld and it behooves all human rights advocates to support his cause.
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Jose Maria Sison INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION Struggle for National Democracy, the collection of essays and speeches of Jose Maria Sison, founding chairman of the Kabataang Makabayan, remains as valid today—if not indeed more so—as when it first came out in 1967.
Jose Maria Sison is the most harassed and maligned youth today, but he refuses to be cowed into silence by those who, having power in their hands and heads, have chosen to play the roles of Capitan Tiago and Senor Pasta of Rizal’s novels.
To Sison, as to all Filipino nationalists, the prerequisite to the success of those strategy and tactics is the development of a robust nationalism.
students.washington.edu /abuw/jmsstrugglenatdem.doc   (18433 words)

  
 Beat Back the Attacks on José-Maria Sison!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
After years of struggle, Comrade Sison was recognised as a political refugee by the authorities of the Netherlands.
José-Maria Sison, the founder of the CPP (1968-69) and Chairman until his capture (1977), has played the role of chief political consultant to the National Democratic Front in the Philippines (NDFP) during the 14 years he has spent in the Netherlands as a political refugee.
This outrageous attack on Sison is an effort to silence a leader who has devoted his life to opposing imperialism and uprooting the semi-feudal and semi-colonial system that has kept the Philippines backward and prey to US domination.
www.awtw.org /sison_11_2002.htm   (1209 words)

  
 Sison lawyers hit EU court ruling, to file appeal - INQ7.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Sison's petition to exclude him from the European Union's list of terrorists is a welcome development in the country's fight against terrorism and insurgency,” military spokesman Brigadier General Jose Angel Honrado said.
Sison is also chief political consultant of the National Democratic Front (NDF), the umbrella organization of the CPP and the NPA.
Sison has been living in exile in The Netherlands since 1987, a year after former president Ferdinand Marcos was ousted from power by a popular revolt led by martyred senator Benigno Aquino's wife, Corazon.
beta.inq7.net /breaking/index.php?index=1&story_id=35769   (669 words)

  
 Workers World Dec. 23, 2004: Philippine revolutionary speaks to the world
Jose Maria Sison is credited with reviving the Communist Party of the Philip pines after its decline in the 1950s.
Sison says that "It is not the CPP and NPA but the U.S. imperialists and their puppets that are responsible for terrorism," and reminds the reader that 1.5 million Filipinos were killed by the U.S. in the first 14 years after it invaded in 1899.
Sison's message to the people of the world at the end of the book is valid for Marxists anywhere: "Persevere in the broad anti-imperialist movement.
www.workers.org /ww/2004/sison1223.php   (490 words)

  
 [MR2004] Fw: "A Revolutionary is not a Terrorist" featuring Jose Maria Sison and Ninotchka Rosca
The life of Jose Maria Sison is a stark example of how certain states, including the Netherlands, can completely disregard a person's human rights.
Further, Sison requested several times access to "secret documents" being used by the Council of the European Union in their decision to put him on the terrorist list.
Sison, with co-author Ninotchka Rosca, internationally-acclaimed award winning Filipina author, will be together at the De Rooie Rat for the program which shall include cultural performances and messages from the authors.
lists.ilps-news.com /pipermail/mr2004/2004-December/000481.html   (383 words)

  
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Jose Maria Sison, as Chief Political Consultant of the NDFP, is among the duly accredited persons covered by the protection of JASIG.
Sison, she will be violating the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (EVRM), in particular its Article 3, which declares: “No one shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.” This protection is absolute and is non-derogable.
Sison enjoys this absolute protection because it has established that he is a political refugee according to the Geneva Convention of 1951.
home.wanadoo.nl /ndf/statements/GMAVIOLATESJASIG.html   (284 words)

  
 VERDEDIG DE RECHTEN VAN PROF. JOSE MARIA SISON (Filippijnen) Petition
De Filippijnse professor Jose Maria Sison verblijft in Nederland als een erkende politiek vluchteling onder de bescherming van de Vluchtelingenconventie en de Europese Conventie voor de Bescherming van de Mensenrechten en de Fundamentele Vrijheden.
Sison toe aan de zwarte lijst van zogenaamde ‘terroristische’ personen, groepen en entiteiten.
JOSE MARIA SISON (Filippijnen) Petition to European Union was created by and written by DEFEND Sison Belgium.
www.petitiononline.com /defendnl/petition.html   (316 words)

  
 Interview with Poof. Jose Maria Sison
A news report at the bulatlat.com website quoted you as identifying Speaker Jose de Venecia as being the one who had disclosed the US plot to scuttle the talks as early as last year.
It was indeed Speaker Jose de Venecia who told me about the scheme of the US to demonize the CPP, NPA and the NDFP chief political consultant as "terrorists" when he phoned from Mexico in November 2001 when he was attending the international conference of the Christian democrats.
Sison: I was not at all intimidated by the forthcoming terrorist label, freezing of whatever funds and so on.
www.yonip.com /main/articles/interview.html   (1056 words)

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