Veloso, Filipina on Indonesia death row, arrives home

Agence France Presse 12/18/2024

MANILA, Philippines — A Filipina who spent nearly 15 years on Indonesia’s death row tearfully reunited with family members Wednesday after arriving in Manila, where she now awaits a hoped-for pardon in a women’s prison. Mother of…

Veloso, Filipina on Indonesia death row, flies home to ‘new life’

Agence France Presse 12/18/2024

JAKARTA, Indonesia — A Filipina inmate on death row in Indonesia for nearly 15 years was transferred home Wednesday to what she called a “new life”, following an agreement for her repatriation after years of negotiations. Mother…

Veloso homecoming on Dec. 18, says Indonesian official

Jane Bautista - Reporter / @janebautistaINQ 12/17/2024

MANILA, Philippines — After 14 years behind bars in Indonesia, nine of which she spent on death row for a drug trafficking conviction, Mary Jane Veloso, is finally returning to the Philippines.  This was announced by an…

Mary Jane Veloso on Indonesia death row recalls a stunning last minute reprieve and ‘miracle’ transfer

Agence France Presse and Associated Press 12/16/2024

YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — 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…

Filipina on death row in Indonesia says planned transfer ‘miracle’

Agence France Presse 12/13/2024

INDONESIA — A Filipina drug convict on death row in Indonesia told AFP from prison Friday that her planned transfer was a “miracle”, in her first interview since Manila and Jakarta signed an agreement last week to…

PH, Indonesia agree on repatriation of Mary Jane Veloso

Agence France Presse 12/06/2024

JAKARTA – 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. The announcement came following the Philippines’ Department of…

Mary Jane Veloso: I’m very elated to go back home

Agence France Presse 11/21/2024

Mary Jane Veloso, who was sentenced to death in Indonesia on drug charges said Thursday that she was “elated” to be returning home, after a deal brokered between the two nations. Veloso was arrested in Indonesia in…

DMW pledges continued support for Mary Jane Veloso, family

Marita Moaje 11/21/2024

MANILA – The Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) reaffirmed its continued commitment to supporting Mary Jane Veloso and her family as she is about to be transferred to the Philippines from Indonesia. At the Bagong Pilipinas briefing on…

Indonesia didn’t ask anything for Mary Jane Veloso – DFA

Darryl John Esguerra 11/20/2024

MANILA – Indonesia did not ask anything in exchange for the return of Mary Jane Veloso, but the Philippines will certainly remember this gesture, according to Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA). In a Palace press briefing Wednesday, DFA…

Ma of Mary Jane Veloso: Daughter may not be safe in PH 

John Eric Mendoza - Reporter / @JEMendozaINQ 11/20/2024

MANILA, Philippines — Her daughter may not be safe in the Philippines. This is what the mother of Mary Jane Veloso, an overseas Filipino worker on Indonesian death row for drug trafficking, said about the announcement of…

‘Mary Jane Veloso is coming home’ — Marcos

Darryl John Esguerra 11/20/2024

MANILA – The Indonesian government has agreed to the Philippines’ request to transfer convicted overseas Filipino worker (OFW) Mary Jane Veloso to a local prison, President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. announced Wednesday. “Mary Jane Veloso is coming…

DFA: Transfer of Mary Jane Veloso to PH facility under discussion

Charie Abarca - @inquirerdotnet 11/19/2024

MANILA, Philippines — The potential transfer of Mary Jane Veloso to a detention facility in Manila have been discussed by the Philippine and Indonesian governments. This has been confirmed by the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on…

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