UPDATED. NUPL chairperson Edre Olalia says while the Philippine government is correct in continuously pushing for her clemency, it's 'baffling' that Marcos would even suggest punishing Veloso in Manila.
We understand that she is convicted. We understand that the law in Indonesia is that way. But nonetheless,anyway to ask for clemencyMary Jane Veloso’s mother appeals to Indonesian gov’t anew to act on case
“The charge for which she was convicted happened outside the Philippines. And her consistent position is that she was a victim of a frame-up by those who trafficked her and precisely why she is suing her local recruiters here. It does not work that way,” he said. In 2010, Veloso was arrested in Yogyakarta after unwittingly bringing with her a suitcase packed with over 2.6 kilograms of heroin. She has requested for clemency before but was rejected in 2015. It was that rejection – and the threat of execution – that first turned Mary Jane Veloso into a household name in the Philippines.
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