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Philippines says it will not intervene in legal process of citizen on death row
A staff member at the Philippine Embassy in Indonesia, Ramon CH, has said the Philippine government will not interfere with the Sleman District Courtâs decision to sentence to death Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso, a Filipina convicted on drug trafficking charges
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staff member at the Philippine Embassy in Indonesia, Ramon CH, has said the Philippine government will not interfere with the Sleman District Court's decision to sentence to death Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso, a Filipina convicted on drug trafficking charges.
'The embassy staffer only told us that no matter how big the mistakes [Veloso] committed, the Philippine government hoped that if it was possible, Indonesia could delay the execution of Mary Jane's death sentence,' Sri Anggraeni A, head of the prosecutors' team in Mary Jane's hearing sessions, told journalists in Yogyakarta on Monday.
The prosecutor said the diplomat had conveyed the request when he accompanied Mary Jane's family on a visit to Wirogunan Penitentiary in Yogyakarta.
'Mary Jane's family members expressed their gratitude to the Attorney General's Office [AGO] for giving them a chance to see their loved one,' said Anggraeni.
The prosecutor from the Yogyakarta Prosecutors' Office (Kejati) said she had been assigned by the AGO to escort Mary Jane's family, two Philippine Embassy staff members, one Foreign Ministry staff member and two Catholic priests on the visits, which took place from Thursday to Saturday.
Among Mary Jane's family members present on the visits were her father Cesar S.Veloso and mother C.Veloso, her elder sister Maritas Laurente and her two younger brothers, Mark Danielle and Mark Darren.
The Kejati Yogyakarta's assistant for general crime, Tri Subardiman, said Veloso was not among death-row convicts who would be soon executed on the Nusakambangan prison island in Cilacap, Central Java.
He said the Kejati was still waiting for the second-case review result filed by Veloso to the Sleman District Court. She submitted the review several weeks ago and the Sleman District Court is still waiting for the arrival of Veloso's clemency request dossiers, which had not yet been returned by the Supreme Court.
'The Sleman District Court should have rejected the second-case review attempt filed by Veloso because her clemency request had been rejected by the President,' said Subardiman. (ebf)(++++)
