The Department of Foreign Affairs reported that 81 Filipinos are on death row overseas, and vowed to do all it can to avert the execution of their sentence. | DFernandezINQ
The DFA likewise reported securing acquittals for 135 overseas Filipinos facing various charges abroad.
Acquittals, it explained, “involve going through the entire criminal trial process where the Court eventually finds that the Filipino accused is not guilty of the crime charged.” “Contrary to media reports that the DFA has not successfully obtained an acquittal for 2022, the DFA reports that based on figures sent by our FSPs , a total of 135 acquittals were secured by the DFA through the Legal Assistance Fund in 2022,” the DFA said.
“Most of the acquittals involved retaliatory cases filed against household service workers in the Middle East for theft, absconding, and breach of trust,” it added.But in a Senate hearing in January this year, the DFA reported that they have zero acquittals of Filipinos facing criminal charges abroad in the first half of 2022.
Meanwhile, the Assistance to Nationals – in which embassies and consulates provide legal, humanitarian, and reparation aid to distressed Filipinos overseas – will be under the Department of Migrant Workers by the end of June, the DFA said.
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