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Veloso needed to assist human trafficking cases, says AGO
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ttorney General M. Prasetyo said on Wednesday that the Philippine government had asked Indonesia to delay the execution of Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso as she was needed in the country's investigation into a number of human trafficking cases.
'Veloso will be requested to give information and testimony. We respect legal processes currently conducted in the Philippines. This was why we decided to delay the execution of Veloso's death sentence. This is a postponement but not a cancellation,' he said as quoted by Antara news agency in Jakarta on Wednesday.
The government executed eight death row inmates early on Wednesday on Nusakambangan prison island near Cilacap in Central Java.
The eight were Indonesian Zainal Abidin, Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, Brazilian Rodrigo Gularte, Nigerians Sylvester Obiekwe Nwolise, Raheem Agbaje Salami and Okwudili Oyatanze and Ghanaian Martin Anderson.
Veloso was spared after a woman who allegedly recruited her to act as a drug courier gave herself up to police in the Philippines on Tuesday.
Prasetyo said the death row inmates were executed simultaneously on 0:35 a.m. local time ' not 0:25 a.m. as previously reported ' in front of eight firing squads, comprising 13 personnel and one commander each.
'All were confirmed dead 30 minutes afterward. All shots were successful and none missed the target,' he said.
The attorney general said four out of eight death row inmates had been dispatched to funeral houses in Jakarta before they were flown to their home countries.
They were Chan, Sukumaran, Gularte and Nwaolise.
He said Salami would be buried in Madiun, East Java, while Anderson would be laid in rest in North Bekasi. Oyatanze would be buried in Ambarawa, Central Java, as he had requested.
'Zainal will be buried in Cilacap based on the request of the South Sumatra governor,' said Prasetyo. (ebf)(+++)
