TheJakartaPost
Please Update your browser
Your browser is out of date, and may not be compatible with our website. A list of the most popular web browsers can be found below.
Just click on the icons to get to the download page.
Veloso moved secretly to Nusakambangan
Transferring convict: An armored police vehicle escorting a convoy believed to be carrying Filipino death row convict Mary Jane Veloso arrives at Wijayapura Port, to cross to Nusakambangan prison island in Cilacap, Central Java, early Friday
Change text size
Gift Premium Articles
to Anyone
Share the best of The Jakarta Post with friends, family, or colleagues. As a subscriber, you can gift 3 to 5 articles each month that anyone can read—no subscription needed!
.jpg)
Transferring convict: An armored police vehicle escorting a convoy believed to be carrying Filipino death row convict Mary Jane Veloso arrives at Wijayapura Port, to cross to Nusakambangan prison island in Cilacap, Central Java, early Friday. Veloso is among foreign drug convicts facing imminent execution despite international appeals for clemency. (AP/Wagino) (AP/Wagino)
T
span class="caption">Transferring convict: An armored police vehicle escorting a convoy believed to be carrying Filipino death row convict Mary Jane Veloso arrives at Wijayapura Port, to cross to Nusakambangan prison island in Cilacap, Central Java, early Friday. Veloso is among foreign drug convicts facing imminent execution despite international appeals for clemency. (AP/Wagino)
A death row inmate from the Philippines, Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso, has arrived at Besi Prison on Nusakambangan Island, joining nine other convicts set for imminent execution.
Veloso, who was sentenced to death for a drug case in 2010, was moved from her cell in Wirogunan Prison, Yogyakarta. She was transported in a Barracuda car escorted by a number of Mobile Brigade personnel. After she applied for her case to be reopened, the Supreme Court affirmed the death sentence, while her request for clemency has also been turned down by the President.
Veloso was arrested for attempting to smuggle 2.6 kilograms of heroin worth Rp 5.5 billion while flying from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in 2010.
Agus Salim, one of Veloso's legal team, said they had not been informed of their client's move to Nusakambangan. He said they should have been informed to allow them to accompany her on the trip.
He said the lack of information about his client's move had caused her relatives and envoys from the Philippines to fruitlessly travel to Wirogunan Prison in Yogyakarta on Friday morning in an attempt to visit her.
He said the legal team was preparing a second request for his client's case to be reopened.
The nine others who are next to be executed are two Australians, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, three Nigerians, Raheem Agbaje Salami, Okwudili Oyatanze and Silvester Obiekwe Nwaolise alias Mustofa, Indonesian Zainal Abidin, Frenchman Serge Areski Atlaoui, Brazilian Rodrigo Gularte and Ghanaian Martin Anderson alias Belo.(+++)
