Mary Jane Veloso | |
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.jpg) Veloso in 2024 | |
| Born | Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso 10 January 1985[1][2] Cabanatuan, Nueva Ecija, Philippines |
| Occupation | Domestic worker |
| Criminal status | Death sentence commuted to life imprisonment |
| Conviction | Drug trafficking (2010) |
| Criminal penalty | Death |
| Imprisoned at | Correctional Institution for Women, Mandaluyong, Manila |
Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso (10 January 1985) is a Filipino who was arrested in Indonesia for drug trafficking in 2010 and then sentenced to death after being found guilty at trial. Granted a temporary reprieve in 2015, she remained on death row for almost 10 years afterwards. Throughout her 14 years of incarceration, Veloso vehemently protested her innocence and claimed that she was tricked into smuggling narcotics. In November 2024, the Indonesian government announced that Veloso would be transferred home to the Philippines after an agreement was reached between the two countries on prisoner transfer laws. Veloso was finally released from prison and repatriated to Manila in mid-December 2024. Her case, among others, aroused international attention and widespread scrutiny of Indonesia's capital punishment and drug prohibition laws.
- ^ "Philippine press caught out by last-minute execution reprieve for Mary Jane Veloso". The Guardian. Agence France-Presse. 29 April 2015. Archived from the original on 31 May 2015. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
- ^ "Veloso family on Mary Jane's birthday: We want her home". Rappler. 11 January 2016. Archived from the original on 12 January 2016. Retrieved 11 January 2016.