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MANILA, Philippines, May 5 (Eagle News) — Despite the allegations made by her mother, Mary Jane Veloso extended her gratitude towards President Benigno S. Aquino III after the postponement of her death sentence. (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales, MRFaith Bonalos)
MAY 1 (Eagle News) — The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said that the Philippine government may seek another clemency for Mary Jane Veloso, this was after a temporary reprieve from death sentence was granted to her by the Indonesian government. According to DFA Spokesperson Charles Jose, the Philippines could seek for another clemency once they identified and convicted the culprits behind the drug smuggling attempt to bring it in Indonesia by using Veloso. (Eagle […]
APRIL 29 (Reuters) — Activists outside the Indonesian Embassy in Manila erupted in cheers on Wednesday (April 29) after learning about Indonesia’s decision to delay the execution of a Filipina on death row. A spokesman for the Attorney General’s Office in Indonesia said the execution of Mary Jane Veloso, a mother of two who was arrested in 2010 after she arrived in Indonesia with 2.6 kg of heroin hidden in her suitcase, had been delayed. […]
Eight drug convicts were executed by an Indonesian firing squad early on Wednesday but a Filipina who was on death row with the Australians, Nigerians, a Brazilian and an Indonesian was unexpectedly not among them, local media reports said. The execution of Mary Jane Veloso by an Indonesian firing squad was delayed at the last minute after one of her recruiters surrendered to police in the Philippines, the attorney general’s spokesman said on Wednesday. “The execution […]
NINE drug traffickers held emotional farewell meetings with their families at an Indonesian prison on Tuesday, after Jakarta rejected last-ditch pleas from around the world for clemency and ordered their mass execution to proceed within hours. “I won’t see him again,” said Raji Sukumaran, the mother of an Australian who will go before a firing squad along with a fellow countryman and convicts from Nigeria, Brazil, the Philippines and Indonesia. “They’re going to take him […]
Activists and supporters gathered outside the Indonesian Embassy in Manila on Tuesday (April 28) in a last-minute appeal for clemency for a Filipina facing execution. Filipina migrant Mary Jane Veloso, a mother of two children, was arrested with 2.6 kilograms of heroin at Yogyakarta Airport in 2010. Hundreds of supporters marched to the embassy gate, carrying placards and banners urging Indonesia to stop the executions. “We’re very sad, we’re very outraged that the execution is […]
MANILA, Philippines – According to Department of Justice (DOJ) Secretary Leila De Lima, the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) is now coordinating with Malaysian counterparts regarding the foreign conspirators who were responsible for recruiting Mary Jane Veloso. De Lima added that they are waiting for formal request to place Veloso’s recruiters under the Immigration’s watch list. The NBI filed charges of human trafficking, illegal recruitment and estafa.
APRIL 28 (Reuters) — Family of Mary Jane Veloso, drug trafficker facing death penalty in Indonesia, arrived at Wijaya Pura Port on Tuesday (April 28), as they prepared to bid farewell with their loved one. The family was on the way to the prison island of Nusakambangan as executions of nine drug convicts, mostly foreigners, entered its final countdown. Ambulances with coffins inside arrived at the Nusakambangan prison island in central Java, where the nine […]
APRIL 28 — President Benigno S. Aquino III is saddened by Indonesia’s decision to push through with the execution of convicted Filipina drug mule Mary Jane Veloso, Communication Secretary Herminio Coloma, Jr. said Monday night. Coloma issued the statement upon being informed that the Indonesian Supreme Court has again denied the Philippine government’s second request for judicial review, rendering all the last-ditch efforts made by its officials — including President Aquino –futile. President Aquino personally […]
APRIL 28 (Reuters) — Dozens from Hong Kong’s migrant workers community, mostly from the Philippines and Indonesia, joined the global plea on Monday (April 27) to spare the life of a Filipina who is due to be executed in Indonesia for trafficking heroin. About 50 protesters shouted that the mother-of-two, Mary Jane Veloso, is “a victim not a criminal” and “stop the execution”, outside of the city’s Indonesian Consulate. Indonesia this weekend informed the group […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — The group of Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption (VACC) calls for the return of the death penalty in the wake of the death sentence against Mary Jane Veloso in Indonesia. According to the group, the Philippines also face widespread illegal drugs problem and is part of the route of illegal drug cartels from Mexico and China.
THE lawyer of a Filipina woman on death row in Indonesia for drug trafficking says her execution could happen soon, as her family paid her a visit on Sunday (April 26). This was the second visit to Nusakambangan island, a maximum high security prison in Indonesia, by Mary Jane Veloso’s family since she was sent to the island on Friday (April 24). Veloso’s lawyer, Edre U Olalia, while waiting for the permit to cross by […]
