'The Attorney General’s Office (AGO) confirmed Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso of the Philippines had been given temporary reprieve from her scheduled execution on Wednesday morning.
“The execution of Mary Jane has been postponed due to the request of the Philippines President [Benigno Aquino III] in relation to an alleged human trafficker who recently gave herself up in the Philippines,” AGO spokesman Tony Spontana told reporters on Wednesday morning.
Tony explained that the government of the Philippines had said that Veloso was needed to testify as a witness as she was one of the alleged trafficking victims of Maria Kristina Sergio, who voluntarily turned herself in to the police on Tuesday.
Veloso was among nine death row inmates slated to be executed in the early hours of Wednesday for drug trafficking charges. She was arrested with 2.6 kg of heroin at Adisucipto International Airport in Yogyakarta in 2010.
Veloso had previously filed two case review appeals at the Supreme Court but were rejected.
- See more at: http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2015 ... LIQgH.dpuf
More on her story.
http://time.com/3839692/mary-jane-velos ... es-jokowi/
The drug syndicate Aussies are now gone but here we have an undisputed victim of some form of human trafficking on death row!Manila’s diplomatic pressures aside, Indonesian migrant activists and women’s-rights activists also played a big role in actively lobbying on behalf of Veloso and helped spark a social-media campaign in Indonesia. The National Commission on Violence Against Women says Veloso was a victim of domestic abuse who, driven by poverty, went to work as a helper in Dubai to support her two sons, but returned home after she was nearly raped by her employer. Driven by desperation, she accepted a job offer in Kuala Lumpur, which led to her arrest in Yogyakarta in 2010. It’s a story that resonates in Indonesia, where millions of women seek work abroad as domestic helpers to support their families, frequently falling victim to ill treatment, exploitation and abuse.
Shame on Indonesia!
Here's the petition: https://www.change.org/p/indonesian-pre ... ane-veloso