Mary Jane Veloso was back in Manila on Wednesday morning, Dec. 18, shortly before the sunrise that for her could symbolically mean a new beginning.
Mary Jane Veloso was back in Manila on Wednesday morning, Dec. 18, shortly before the sunrise that for her could symbolically mean a new beginning in a life fraught with misfortunes.
"Welcome home, Mary Jane!" a message on a long, huge tarpaulin being carried by her family members read. Before her flight, the Indonesian government formally turned over the legal custody for Veloso to the Philippine government in a signing ceremony widely-anticipated in the Philippines. In a short press conference, where she answered several questions both in Filipino and in Bahasa Indonesia, Veloso wished that she be finally granted an executive clemency—a decision that the Indonesian government already let the Philippine government make.Although that was also the hope of the Philippine government when Veloso was still in Jakarta, Malacañang said it was still"premature to speculate" what the government would do.
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