Road to absolute freedom for Mary Jane Veloso is ‘quiet’: Lawyer


Mary Jane Veloso meeting her family and relatives at the Correctional Institution for Women in Mandaluyong City, where she was taken to shortly upon arrival in the Philippines on Dec 18, 2024. - Bureau of Corrections

MANILA: The road to Mary Jane Veloso’s absolute freedom remains “quiet” and “uncertain” but hopes are still high that she would be granted clemency.

Veloso, a Filipina inmate on death row in Indonesia who spent almost 15 years in prison for drug trafficking, is finally back in her home country — the Philippines.

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