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"Lord, many people there believe that I am guilty, but many people out there believe that I am innocent. Lord, You are the One who knows everything, You knew that I am innocent, so I beg You, please prove that by saving me,” Veloso recalled praying in a tearful interview with The Associated Press at a female prison in Yogyakarta on Tuesday.
Veloso, now 39, was arrested in 2010 at the airport in the Indonesian ancient city of Yogyakarta, where officials discovered about 2.6 kilograms of heroin hidden in her luggage. The single mother of two sons was convicted and sentenced to death. "Mary Jane Veloso is coming home,” Marcos said in a statement."Arrested in 2010 on drug trafficking charges and sentenced to death, Mary Jane’s case has been a long and difficult journey.”
Once repatriated, Mahendra said, if the Philippines want to pardon Veloso or grant clemency,"that is entirely their authority in which we must also respect,” the minister added. The Philippines, Asia’s largest Roman Catholic nation, has abolished the death penalty."For almost 15 years I was separated from my children and parents, and I could not see my children grow up,” she said, her eyes filled with tears.
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