Former presidential spokesperson Harry Roque announced that he is now a bona fide asylum seeker in the Netherlands during an interview on Friday.
“I am now a bona fide asylum seeker… I can no longer be deported back to the Philippines until my application is resolved,” Roque shared during a gathering in The Hague celebrating former President Rodrigo Duterte’s birthday.
“No more hiding. That’s why when I signed my asylum application, I was in tears, sobbing, because for the first time in six and a half months, I no longer have to live in hiding,” he added.
(Video by Jove Francisco/One News)
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