Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) Secretary Susan 'Toots' Ople said Tuesday that a meeting would be held to discuss death row cases in other countries. Ople said Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin would convene the meeting with other Secretaries.
Department of Migrant Workers Secretary Susan "Toots" Ople said Tuesday that a meeting would be held to discuss death row cases in other countries."Just as an fyi, on Friday, the Executive Secretary will be convening a meeting. To be present in that meeting are the Secretary of Labor, Secretary of Foreign Affairs, myself, and of course the ES, to discuss transitional matters. For example, 'yung nga mga death row cases," Ople said at a Palace briefing.
Ople was responding to a question regarding updates on the request for executive clemency for Mary Jane Veloso, the Filipino woman who was convicted of drug trafficking and meted the death penalty in Indonesia in 2010.Veloso's parents Cesar and Celia have asked President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. to ask for clemency from Indonesian President Joko Widodo for their daughter. —
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