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MANILA: Mary Jane Veloso was transferred to a regular dormitory of the Correctional Institute for Women (CIW) in Mandaluyong City after finishing her five-day quarantine, the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) said on Friday (Dec 27).
MANILA: The road to Mary Jane Veloso’s absolute freedom remains “quiet” and “uncertain” but hopes are still high that she would be granted clemency.
JAKARTA: Celia Veloso paced anxiously inside her bare-brick home, waiting for a call from her daughter Mary Jane, who had spent 14 years on death row in Indonesia.
MANILA: The Philippines is “bound to honour” the conditions set by Indonesia in allowing the transfer of Mary Jane Veloso back to the country, including the serving of her sentence, the national government said Thursday (Nov 21).
JAKARTA (Reuters) - The Philippines has agreed to Jakarta's proposed transfer procedures for the repatriation of a Philippine woman who was sentenced to death for drug trafficking, Indonesia's senior minister for law and human rights affairs said on Friday.
MANILA: President Ferdinand Marcos Jr on Wednesday said that law enforcement agencies will guarantee the safety and welfare of Mary Jane Veloso, who returned to Manila earlier that day after being detained in Indonesia for almost 15 years.
MANILA (Reuters) - Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said legal experts would consider clemency requests for Mary Jane Veloso, who had been sentenced to death in Indonesia for drug trafficking before the two countries reached a deal for her repatriation this week.
MANILA: Malacanang Palace on Tuesday (Dec 17) said nothing is final yet on the possible pardon for overseas Filipino worker (OFW) Mary Jane Veloso, who is set to return to the Philippines after over a decade of imprisonment in Indonesia.
The country has agreed to Indonesia’s proposed transfer procedures for the repatriation of a Philippine woman who was sentenced to death for drug trafficking, Indonesia’s senior minister for law and human rights affairs said.
MANILA: President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said he would raise the issue of Mary Jane Veloso’s clemency and freedom during his bilateral meeting with Indonesian President Joko 'Jokowi" Widodo in Malacanang on Wednesday (Jan 10)
Filipino death row inmate Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso knelt to pray when officers came to take her to an execution site in May 2015, just a few feet away from her isolation cell on an Indonesian prison island, where a 13-member firing squad was waiting.
Indonesia and the Philippines signed an agreement Friday to send Mary Jane Veloso, a Filipina on death row for drug charges in Indonesia since 2015, back to her home country.
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said a deal has been reached for Indonesia to send back a Filipino death-row drug convict, who was nearly executed by firing squad but got a reprieve due to years of pleadings from Manila.
MANILA (Reuters) -Mary Jane Veloso, who received a last-minute reprieve from execution by firing squad for drug trafficking in Indonesia in 2015, arrived in the Philippines in the early hours of Wednesday after years of negotiations between the two Southeast Asian countries.
MANILA: Filipina who spent nearly 15 years on Indonesia's death row landed in Manila on Wednesday (Dec 18) morning where she was taken to a local prison following a repatriation deal years in the making.
MANILA: The mother of Mary Jane Veloso, an overseas Filipino worker on Indonesian death row for drug trafficking, said her daughter may not be safe in the Philippines.
A WOMAN who spent nearly 15 years on Indonesia’s death row tearfully reunited with family members after arriving in Manila, where she now awaits a hoped-for pardon in a women’s prison.
AN inmate sentenced to death in Indonesia was moved to capital Jakarta before she is expected to fly home tomorrow, after the government signed an agreement to repatriate her.
FRANCE has sent Indonesia an official request for the transfer of a French death row inmate who has spent nearly 20 years in prison.
MANILA/JAKARTA (Reuters) -A Filipina spared from execution on drug trafficking charges in Indonesia in 2015 will be returned to the Philippines after years of negotiations between the two Southeast Asian neighbours, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said on Wednesday.
