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Inmate Mary Jane Veloso to return to Philippines on Wednesday

Dio Suhenda (The Jakarta Post)
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Inmate Mary Jane Veloso to return to Philippines on Wednesday I Nyoman Gede Surya Mataram (center), a senior official at the Office of the Coordinating Law, Human Rights, Immigration and Correctional Services Minister, speaks to reporters regarding the repatriation of former death row inmate Mary Jane Veloso in Jakarta on Dec. 16, 2024. (AFP/Juni Kriswanto)

M

ary Jane Veloso, a Filipina domestic worker who was sentenced to death 14 years ago in Indonesia, is scheduled return to her home country on Wednesday as part of a prisoner transfer agreement between Jakarta and Manila.

I Nyoman Gede Surya Mataram, a deputy at the Office of the Coordinating Law, Human Rights, Immigration and Correctional Services Minister, said on Monday that Veloso would return on a Ceibu Pacific flight scheduled to depart from Soekarno-Hatta International Airport at 12:15 a.m. on Wednesday.

Veloso was moved on Sunday night from a women’s prison in Yogyakarta to a women’s prison in Jakarta, where she arrived at 7:30 a.m. on Monday morning.

“We will bring her to the airport at around 10 p.m. on Tuesday,” Nyoman said. “The travel documents and airplane ticket have all been prepared by the [Philippine] embassy.”

Veloso, now 39, was arrested in 2010 at Adisutjipto International Airport in Yogyakarta for bringing a suitcase containing 2.6 kilograms of heroin from Kuala Lumpur.

She maintained her innocence throughout the trial, but was sentenced to death in the same year.

Veloso was granted a last-minute stay of execution in 2015 and Manila afterwards began appealing to Indonesia for clemency.

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