adminMANILA. — Manny Pacquiao plans to visit a woman who is on death row in Indonesia. The woman, from the Philippines, where Pacquiao is a congressman, was sentenced to death after being arrested in 2009 with 2,6 kg of heroin sewn into the lining of her suitcase.
Pacquiao, a former boxing champion in eight divisions, also intends to raise Mary Jane Veloso’s case with Indonesian president Joko Widodo.
She was set to face the firing squad in April with several other foreign drug convicts, but was granted an 11th-hour reprieve after a woman suspected of recruiting her was arrested in the Philippines.
The alleged recruiter and an accomplice now face charges in the Philippines.
The Indonesian government stressed Veloso’s reprieve was only a “postponement” to allow time for police investigations.
The single mother of two young children has always maintained her innocence, claiming she was duped by an international human-trafficking gang into bringing the drugs into Indonesia. — AFP.
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