Topic: arrest

They have been threatened with arrest by military and police authorities of the Duterte regime and Duterte himself has given no assurance of safety and has publicly expressed lack of interest in any effort to resume the GRP-NDFP peace negotiations

“Apparently, the judge is independent-minded. At any rate, I welcome the decision,” Sison said in an online interview from his base in Utrecht, The Netherlands on Friday.

CPP founder Joma Sison claims that President Duterte is setting a bad precedent for peace talks as the government is trying to intimidate some peace consultants

For CPP founder Jose Maria Sison, the arrest of NDFP consultant Vic Ladlad is a “barbaric” act of the government and a clear violation of the JASIG

A PEACE talks consultant for the communist rebels who was arrested is “protected” by an agreement with the government, the exiled founder of the Communist Party of the Philippines said on Thursday

The continued arrest of consultants of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) only showed that President Duterte did not want to resume peace negotiations between the government and communist rebels

It is barbaric practice for any side to consider as combatant peace emissaries, negotiators, consultants and resource person of the other side and subject them to surveillance, harassment, frame up, arrest, detention and killing

In anticipation of the anniversary of the capture of Jose Maria Sison on November 10, 1977, his 30-stanza poem “Fragments of a Nightmare” (which is about his long series of tortures) is published here

The thousands of NPA fighters are far beyond 5000 in more than 110 guerrilla fronts in 73 provinces and are intact, alive and kicking

It is fine that Duterte admits lately that tough economic times are ahead for the Filipino people who are now already reeling from the inflationary conditions.