The Netherlands Consulate receives protests for Prof. Jose Maria Sison release

The Netherlands Consul, Monique T. Looman, received on September 6th, a group of representatives of democratic and people's movements and unions, protesting against the arbitrary arrest of Professor Jose Maria Sison, which happened on August 28th, in Holland. She displayed solidarity to the protesters and received a document given by the entities (see list below, pictures included). She promised to forward it to the Dutch Ambassador who would reply to it. The Consul affirmed her belief the issue would be questioned and that the European people had suffered a lot during the fascist regime.

The entities and workers, teachers, students, lawyers and other movements have gathered in front of the Consulate, in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, 1167 Sergipe Street, room 1203, and held a demonstration with banners and posters, demanding the immediate release of Prof. Jose Maria Sison.

Prof. Jose Maria Sison is a Philippine and he has lived as a political exiled in Holland since 1987. He is the chairman of ILPS - International League of Peoples Struggle. He was arrested because of political reasons. As an active participant of the people's and democratic movement he has been persecuted by the Dutch State under the pressure of the Philippines government which has been promoting a large repressive offensive against the democratic movement in the country through arrests and murders of the people's leadership, lawyers and progressive priests. In Utrecht, on August 28th, professor Sison was summoned by the Dutch police and immediately arrested and sent to the Scheveningen Prison, in the Hague.

According to his lawyer, Michel Pestman, professor Sison has been under torture and not allowed to have visits from his wife and doctor, not permitted to have medicines and winter clothes either.

Sison is a political prisoner and his prison an illegal thing! His arrest has occurred in times when there has been an increase of fascism and the policies of persecution and war under the command of George W. Bush imperialist government.

Below find the document delivered at the Embassy which has been signed by entities which condemn the despotic prison of Professor Jose Maria Sison.

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Belo Horizonte, September 6th, 2007.

To

The Consul Representation of the Netherlands Government

We would like to present our strong protest and repudiation against the arbitrary arrest of Professor Jose Maria Sison, a Philippine citizen, a political exiled in Holland, who was despotically arrested at the police station of Utrecht, on August 28th, and surprisingly taken to the Scheveningen Prison, in the Hague, where he was placed in a confinement cell.

We strongly repudiate the tortures Professor Sison has been inflicted to, his total isolation, not allowed to have visits from his wife and family, neither medicines he needs nor his own doctor and not even winter clothes.

We repudiate the fascism of the Dutch police and government which disrespects the most elementary rights, acting like Nazi people, arresting and torturing a political prisoner, invading his house and the house of other Philippine exiled persons, breaking into their residences, taking away computers and other objects.

We condemn once more the fascism of the Netherlands government and we demand the immediate freedom of Professor Jose Maria Sison, the end of tortures and arbitrariness he has been suffering as well as the stop of persecutions against exiled and immigrant people.

Entities List:

Liga Operária

Liga dos Camponeses Pobres

Sindicato dos Trabalhadores da Construção de Belo Horizonte

Sindicato dos Rodoviários de Belo Horizonte

Sindicato dos Comerciários de Betim

Movimento Feminino Popular

MEP – Movimento pela Educação Popular

UCMG – União Colegial de Minas Gerais

MEPR – Movimento Estudantil Popular

NAP – Núcleo dos Advogados do Povo

FETTROMINAS – Federação dos Trab. em Transportes Rodoviários de Minas Gerais

Sindicato dos Rodoviários do Município do Rio de Janeiro

NCST-MG – Nova Central Sindical de Minas Gerais

Sindicato dos Bancários de Itajubá

ASCOAP – Associação dos Comerciários Aposentados

SINDPUB – Sindicato dos Servidores Públicos de São Lourenço

F.E.E.B.-MG – Federação dos Empregados em Estabelecimentos Bancários de MG, GO, TO e DF

SINDSUL/MG - Sindicato dos Eletricitários do Sul de Minas Gerais  ►►►►

Sindicato dos Químicos de Minas Gerais

Sindicato dos Rodoviários de Barbacena

Sindicato dos Bancários de Barbacena

Sindicato dos Químicos – BH

Sindicato dos Trabalhadores da Construção Civil de Itabira

Sindicato dos Trabalhadores nas Indústrias de Tecelagem e Fiação de Itabirito

FETASP-PB – Federação dos Trabalhadores do Serviço Público da Paraíba

CNTI/MG

Federação dos Trabalhadores nas Indústrias Urbanas de Minas Gerais

Federação dos Trabalhadores das Indústrias do Vestuário de Minas Gerais

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Some other demonstrations have been organised in different Brazilian towns. At the same time a message campaign has been prepared to be sent to The Netherlands Embassy for the immediate release of Professor Sison. We will keep you informed as long as they have been accomplished.

CEBRASPO

Statement in Word format

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