After UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan pardoned three convicted Filipinos at the request of President Marcos, calls were renewed to again ask Philippine ally Indonesia to grant clemency to death row convict Mary Jane Veloso. | NCorralesINQ /PDI
Aside from the pardons, Mr. Marcos also thanked Al-Nahyan, also the crown prince and de facto ruler of Abu Dhabi, for sending 50 tons of food and medicine to families displaced by Mayon Volcano’s unrest.
“We challenge President Bongbong Marcos Jr. to take more proactive actions to appeal to the Indonesian government to grant clemency for Mary Jane,” said the group’s chair Joanna Concepcion.Marcos already asked President Joko Widodo to “reexamine” Veloso’s case on the sidelines of the 42nd Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit in Indonesia last year.
Veloso was convicted of drug smuggling in 2010 after 2.6 kilograms of heroin were found hidden in her suitcase upon her arrival at Yogyakarta’s Adisucipto International Airport.She was later sentenced to death by musketry, but the sentence was suspended after new evidence emerged, suggesting that she was also victimized by a drug trafficking syndicate.
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