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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Niniek Karmini and Andi Jatmiko

Filipina who won a last-minute reprieve from the Indonesian firing squad in 2015 is to return home

Indonesia Philippines Prisoner Transfer - (Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

Indonesian authorities were set to return a Filipina woman to the Philippines after midnight, who was on death row in Indonesia and was nearly executed by firing squad in 2015, under an arrangement between the two countries.

Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso — who spent almost 15 years in an Indonesian prison for drug trafficking — won a last-minute reprieve that will lead to her testimony exposing how a criminal syndicate duped her into being an unwitting accomplice and drug courier.

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