PBBM sa pagbibigay ng executive clemency kay Veloso: We will see; Everything is on the table

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Bukas si Pangulong Bongbong Marcos sa pagbibigay ng executive clemency sa Pinay death row convict sa Indonesia na si Mary Jane Veloso. Ligtas man sa parusang bitay, habambuhay pa rin siyang makukulong pag-uwi ng Pilipinas matapos ang mahigit ang isang dekada. Giit naman ng Foreign Affairs at Justice department, posibleng may mga ipataw na kondisyon ang Indonesia na kailangan sundin ng Pilipinas.

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00:00Good evening, Luzon Visayas and Mindanao.

00:04Tomorrow, President Bongbong Marcos will give the executive clemency

00:10to the death row convict in Indonesia, Mary Jane Veloso.

00:14Even if she is saved from the prison, she will still be jailed in the Philippines

00:19after more than a decade.

00:21Foreign Affairs and Justice Department said

00:24it is possible that there are certain conditions in Indonesia that the Philippines must follow.

00:31And Iwan Mayrina was there.

00:36Indonesia itself said

00:38it is time to return the Philippines to the death row convict, Mary Jane Veloso.

00:42President Bongbong Marcos is in the power to give her pardon,

00:45especially since there is no death penalty in the Philippines.

00:48So in her visit to the groundbreaking of a solar farm in Nueva Ecija,

00:51the question to the President is, is it possible to give executive clemency to Veloso?

00:55We will see. We will see.

00:57It is not yet clear how...

01:01This is the first time this has happened.

01:04So, everything is on the table.

01:07What is clear according to the President is that Veloso is now safe from the prison

01:12because the sentence for life in prison is already too low.

01:16We have been working on this for all the previous...

01:20Not just me, this has been going on for 10 years.

01:22This has been going on for 10 years.

01:24But what we did is we commuted her sentence from death sentence to life imprisonment.

01:30With the agreement between Indonesia and the Philippines

01:34for her transfer here to the Philippines,

01:37effectively the Indonesian government agreed to lower or commute her sentence

01:44from death penalty to life imprisonment.

01:47Meanwhile, according to Veloso's lawyer...

01:50Commutation is to lower or reduce the sentence

01:56to reduce the death penalty.

01:59One is death, the other is prison. It's different.

02:07According to the Department of Justice,

02:09under the agreement of returning to the Philippines to Veloso,

02:12it does not mean that she will be released soon.

02:14The Philippines is obligated to follow the possible conditions of Indonesia,

02:18such as the continuation of her sentence for drug trafficking,

02:22aside from the prison sentence that is prohibited by our laws.

02:26We need to give respect to the judgment made by the Indonesian courts

02:34to her that she was sentenced to life imprisonment.

02:42We cannot turn a blind eye to it.

02:45When it comes to this, we automatically need to pardon her or give her an executive clemency.

02:51But according to Veloso's lawyer, Indonesia has no power over Veloso.

02:55It's time for her to return here.

02:57Mary Jane's case in Indonesia is over legally.

03:02How is that? There is no death penalty.

03:04So the range of possibilities is,

03:06she can be sentenced to 40 years of permanent reclusion,

03:12or we want to give her an absolute pardon.

03:18She will not be imprisoned for even a second.

03:20When she returns to the Philippines,

03:22she will continue to seek her recruiter for the cases of human trafficking and estafa.

03:26The government is also checking Mary Jane's safety,

03:29who is under the care of the Bureau of Corrections.

03:32For GMA Indigrated News, Ivan Mayrina, for 24 Hours.

PBBM sa pagbibigay ng executive clemency kay Veloso: We will see; Everything is on the table | 24 Oras

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