Mary Jane Veloso, an overseas Filipino worker who has been on death row in Indonesia for more than a decade, is coming home.
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00:00Mary Jane Veloso, an overseas Filipino worker who has been on death row in Indonesia for
00:05more than a decade, is coming home.
00:08President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. says,
00:10"...after over a decade of diplomacy and consultations with the Indonesian government, we are finally
00:15bringing her back to the Philippines."
00:17Marcos thanked Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto.
00:20Veloso, now 39, was arrested, tried, and sentenced to death in 2010 for trying to bring 2.6 kilograms
00:27of heroin into Indonesia.
00:29Veloso was duped into carrying a suitcase lined with drugs.
00:32Marcos notes, Veloso remains a victim of her circumstances.
00:36But once Veloso is brought back home, Foreign Undersecretary for Migration Eduardo de Vegas says,
00:41"...when she gets here, she will not immediately be released.
00:46It means we will commit to detain her until such time that we've mutual agreement that
00:55she could be given clemency.
00:59But at least she would be here."