decision to release five of the nine Australian drug convicts known as the “Bali 9” after 19 years of detention.
Human rights groups have joined Veloso’s family in urging President Marcos to grant the Filipina absolute pardon, saying she was a victim of human trafficking and that she deserves to be granted clemency due to humanitarian grounds. Veloso was arrested and sentenced to death in 2010 after 2.6 kilograms of heroin was found in her luggage, but the Filipina asserted that the bag was only handed to her by her recruiters.
Olalia, also chair of the National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers, said rather than debate on whether or not Veloso knew that prohibited drugs were stashed in her luggage, “we should direct the attention to whether or not there is enough humanitarian basis to grant her clemency.”
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