Indonesia and the Philippines signed a deal on Friday to send home a Filipino death-row drug convict who was nearly executed by firing squad in 2015, as the new administration of President Prabowo Subianto seeks to shore up diplomatic ties with neighboring countries.
The agreement, after a decade of negotiations, will allow Mary Jane Veloso to return home by the end of the month, Raul Vasquez, the Undersecretary at the Department of Justice of the Philippines, told a joint news conference with Yusril Ihza Mahendra, Indonesia's Coordinating Minister for Law, Human Rights, Immigration and Correctional.
