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Islands in focus: Family, lawyer visit Veloso in death-row
Loving family: Family members of death-row convict Mary Jane Veloso, her father Cesar Veloso (second left), her sons Mark Darren and Mark Daniel, and mother Celia Veloso show birthday gifts for Mary Jane at Wirogunan Penitentiary in Yogyakarta on Tuesday
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Loving family: Family members of death-row convict Mary Jane Veloso, her father Cesar Veloso (second left), her sons Mark Darren and Mark Daniel, and mother Celia Veloso show birthday gifts for Mary Jane at Wirogunan Penitentiary in Yogyakarta on Tuesday. Veloso, who recently celebrated her 31st birthday, is expected to testify by video-link in a Manila court.(JP/Bambang Muryanto) (second left), her sons Mark Darren and Mark Daniel, and mother Celia Veloso show birthday gifts for Mary Jane at Wirogunan Penitentiary in Yogyakarta on Tuesday. Veloso, who recently celebrated her 31st birthday, is expected to testify by video-link in a Manila court.(JP/Bambang Muryanto)
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span class="inline inline-center">Loving family: Family members of death-row convict Mary Jane Veloso, her father Cesar Veloso (second left), her sons Mark Darren and Mark Daniel, and mother Celia Veloso show birthday gifts for Mary Jane at Wirogunan Penitentiary in Yogyakarta on Tuesday. Veloso, who recently celebrated her 31st birthday, is expected to testify by video-link in a Manila court.(JP/Bambang Muryanto)
Drug convict Mary Jane Veloso, who has been sentenced to death, has been visited in Wirogunan Prison in Yogyakarta by her family from the Philippines. Her lawyer also attended to discuss the technicalities of Veloso providing testimony in a human-trafficking case involving a person who recruited her as a migrant worker.
'This is the first time Mary Jane has met her family and lawyer directly,' Laorence Castillo from Migrante International told journalists at Wirogunan on Tuesday.
Castillo said after meeting Veloso, her lawyer, Edre Olaila from the Philippines National Union of People's Lawyers (NUPL), and her legal team from Indonesia would meet prosecutors at the Sleman Prosecutor's Office. They will discuss the technicalities of Veloso providing video-link testimony in a case involving Maria Christina Sergio, the person who recruited her as a migrant worker, in a court in Manila.
'The time-frame for Mary Jane's testimony will be in February or March. The legal process in the Philippines is very slow,' said Castillo.
He added that the trial of Sergio, who recruited Veloso as a migrant worker, was still ongoing. Three other alleged victims of human-trafficking have also pressed charges against Sergio.
