PETITION. Mary Jane Veloso’s parents, Cesar and Celia, submit a petition with 5,000 signatures to Malacañang seeking clemency for Mary Jane on July 4, 2025. Photo by Cara Oliver/Rappler ...

YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Filipino death row inmate Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso knelt to pray when officers came to take her to an execution site in May 2015, just a few feet away from her ...

In his 4th SONA, Marcos celebrates the clemency grants to over 600 overseas Filipinos. But Mary Jane Veloso, whose freedom the President also once fought for, remains behind bars in his own backyard.

Woman who was nearly killed by Indonesian firing squad in 2015 returns home Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso was moved late Sunday to a female prison in Indonesia's capital of Jakarta, from where she has ...

Mary Jane Veloso reunites with her family after arriving at the Correctional Institution for Women in Mandaluyong on December 18, 2024. Maria Tan, ABS-CBN News MANILA — Religious and civil ...

Posted: July 4, 2025 | Last updated: July 4, 2025 Malacañang made an assurance that the petition for Mary Jane Veloso's clemency would reach President Marcos.

Malacañang on Friday said President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. would consider the appeal for executive clemency for Mary Jane Veloso who spent 14 years in prison in Indonesia for drug trafficking. In a ...

This, as Veloso’s parents, along with concerned groups, on Friday submitted a petition addressed to President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. to free Mary Jane. They were hoping for the granting of ...

MANILA, PHILIPPINES - 2016/10/13: Women's group Gabriela Metro Manila hold a prayer and vigil in front of Philippine Christian University to call the attention Pres. Duterte to save Mary Jane Veloso.

“Mary Jane Veloso is coming home,” Marcos said in a statement. “Arrested in 2010 on drug trafficking charges and sentenced to death, Mary Jane’s case has been a long and difficult journey.” ...