00:00Good evening Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.
00:04Mary Jane Veloso has been saved from the death penalty of the OFW.
00:10After more than a decade in the death row of Indonesia.
00:15President Bongbong Marcos announced that Veloso will be able to return to the Philippines.
00:19It is a great thing that his family thanked him.
00:23But Mary Jane's return to the country is not at home, but in prison.
00:29And Ivan Mayrina is in touch.
00:35After 14 years in prison, Mary Jane Veloso will return home.
00:39The OFW in the death row in Indonesia.
00:42That's what President Bongbong Marcos announced this morning.
00:45The President said in his Facebook account.
00:47It is a great thing that more than a decade of talking to the Indonesian government.
00:51The President also thanked the new President of Indonesia, Prabowo Subianto.
01:00If you meet my written agreement, there is still no answer.
01:05But they are the first to come to us to talk about this.
01:10So we're extremely confident it will happen.
01:13And certainly our President must be pretty of information which will explain his confidence.
01:21Mary Jane was sentenced to death after being charged for more than 2 kilos of heroin
01:26that was discovered in her luggage when she arrived at Yogyakarta Airport in 2010.
01:30But Mary Jane said that she was fooled by her recruiters,
01:33who brought the alleged luggage that she did not know that it contained drugs.
01:38The news that Mary Jane will be allowed to return to the Philippines
01:41is more than the excitement of her family in Nueva Ecija.
01:44Especially that her children are just kids when she was last with them.
01:48This is the happiest thing in our life, the whole family.
01:52Especially her children.
01:54It's been a long time.
01:56Now, this is it.
01:58God has heard our prayers.
02:01Her pregnancy has arrived.
02:04I hope that Mary Jane will be able to return to the Philippines.
02:07I hope that she won't be jailed.
02:10I ask the government that if Mary Jane will be able to return to the Philippines,
02:14I hope she will be able to return to the Philippines.
02:16But the alleged return to the Philippines is not in their home in Nueva Ecija,
02:20but in Piitan, which is still being targeted by the government.
02:23Under the Prison Transfer Agreement,
02:25the physical custody will only be transferred to a prison in the Philippines.
02:29But the legal custody is still in Indonesia.
02:32The Correctional Institute for Women in Mandaluyong
02:35is one of the places where Mary Jane can be brought to.
02:37Even if she will be jailed, Mary Jane will be saved from the jail
02:40because Indonesia is aware that there is no death penalty in the Philippines.
02:44When she arrives here, she will be serving the sentence that was meted in Indonesia.
02:49So she will just continue her sentence.
02:52And I think it's worth emphasizing also that the most important aspect of this all
02:57is the difference in our laws.
03:00There, they allowed the death penalty.
03:02Here, we all know that it's abolished.
03:05So we don't have a death sentence here.
03:07But Mary Jane's lawyers want something to happen.
03:09Our law is absolute remedy,
03:12which even the Coordinating Minister of Indonesia
03:16expressly stated that it's now going to be the responsibility
03:20of the Philippine authorities, whether or not to grant clemency.
03:25Aside from Mary Jane, there are 57 Filipinos around the world
03:28facing the death penalty based on the DFA data.
03:32For GMA Integrated News, Ivan Mejrina, Katutok, 24 Hours.
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