Bittersweet homecoming in Philippines awaits drug convict Mary Jane Veloso


Celia Veloso showing off family pictures to BenarNews at her home in Cabanatuan city, north of Manila, Nov. 26, 2024. - BenarNews/JP

JAKARTA: Celia Veloso paced anxiously inside her bare-brick home, waiting for a call from her daughter Mary Jane, who had spent 14 years on death row in Indonesia.

A stream of friends and neighbours had been stopping by the home in a remote farming barrio north of Manila since last week.

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