By D. L. MONDELO Bulatlat.com AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands – The recent Wikileaks expose’ of a 2007 cable from the US embassy in Manila (which was published in Manila newspapers) revealing the collaboration between the Dutch, Philippines and US governments to file false murder charges against Filipino political exile Prof. Jose Ma. Sison is merely a…
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Case vs Sison in Netherlands Dismissed
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat The Dutch government’s Public Prosecution Service has dismissed the murder charges against Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founding chairman and current National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) chief political consultant Jose Maria Sison for “insufficient legal and convincing evidence”. Dutch police had arrested and briefly detained Sison on…
Probe of Sison Case Extended
BY EMILY VITAL Bulatlat January 21, 2008 – 3:58pm The Dutch prosecutor recently announced that the preliminary investigation of the case against Jose Maria Sison will be extended until the middle of the year. Dutch Prosecutor J.S. de Vries’ claimed that the examining judge C.M. Derijks ‘has done something grievously wrong by declaring the untimely…
Decision of the Dutch Court of Appeals is the Triumph of Justice
The Court of Appeals has clarified that for anyone to play a prominent role on behalf of any revolutionary political party or movement in general or in abstracto is no proof of criminal wrongdoing. Direct concrete evidence is necessary to prove any criminal act. The decision has profound implications and has far reaching consequences not…