(Eagle News)–Communist Party of the Philippines founding chair Joma Sison has passed away.
He was 83.
According to CPP chief information officer Marco Valbuena, Sison passed away after two weeks of confinement in the hospital at 8:40 p.m.
The hospital and the cause of death were not specified.
Sison had been living in self-exile in The Netherlands since 1987.
