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CPP congratulates Ka Joema for his removal from EU terror blacklist
PRESS RELEASE
Information Bureau
Communist Party of the Philippines
December 14, 2009
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) today congratulated Jose
Ma. Sison, CPP founding chairman, for his removal by the European Union's
(EU) General Court from the EU's terrorist blacklist. The CPP described
Sison's court victory after seven years of legal struggle as "another slap
against the campaign of the US imperialists and the Arroyo regime to
demonize and persecute Ka Joema."
Last September 30, the European court decided in favor of Sison after
determining that he was never investigated, prosecuted nor convicted
for any act of terrorism. It ruled that the passing and incidental statements
in Dutch court judgments on his asylum case from 1992 to 1997 and on
the unproven murder charge against him in 2007 failed to make a case
against him as a terrorist. The court's judgement became final and executory
when the December 10 deadline lapsed without the European Council filing
an appeal.
Sison was included in the EU's terror blacklist in 2002 as a result of heavy
influence by the Bush regime and persistent lobbying by the Arroyo regime.
Ka Joema's removal from the European Union's terror blacklist "is only the
latest in a string of victories in his long-standing fight against persecution by
the US, its EU ally and its local puppet regime. It is also a significant victory
in the continuing fight of the world's revolutionary forces and people against
the US-led 'global war against terror' obstinately supported by its allies and
puppets," said the CPP.
"The revolutionary forces in the Philippines have consistently been berating
the US "foreign terrorist list," charging the US for actually being the world's
Number One Terrorist. It has also demanded that the reactionary puppet
government undo its work to include the CPP, the New People's Army and
CPP founder Jose Ma. Sison in the "foreign terrorists list" of the US, the
European Union and other imperialist countries.
The CPP said that the US "global war against terror" is actually nothing more
than the US' war of terror against all countries and peoples of the world
fighting for national freedom, democracy, justice and social progress.
Sison's lawyers are now planning to pursue a case against the European
Council to demand compensation for the "deprivations, violations of rights
and moral and material damages that he has suffered for more than seven
years," as well as for his legal defense.
Reference:
Marco Valbuena
Media Officer
Cellphone Numbers: 09156596802 :: 09282242061
E-mail:cppmedia@ gmail.com
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