Mary Jane Veloso drug smuggling case
Mary Jane Veloso | |
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Veloso in 2024 | |
| Born | Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso 10 January 1985 Cabanatuan, Nueva Ecija, Philippines |
| Occupation | Domestic worker |
| Criminal status | Incarcerated |
| Conviction | Drug trafficking (2010) |
| Criminal penalty | Death; automatically commuted to life imprisonment due to abolition of capital punishment in Philippines (2024) |
| Imprisoned at | Correctional Institution for Women, Mandaluyong, Metro Manila |
Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso (10 January 1985) is a Filipino who was arrested in Indonesia for drug trafficking in 2010 and then sentenced to death after being found guilty at trial. Granted a temporary reprieve in 2015, she remained on death row for almost 10 years afterwards. Throughout her 14 years of incarceration, Veloso vehemently protested her innocence and claimed that she was tricked into smuggling narcotics. In November 2024, the Indonesian government announced that Veloso would be transferred home to the Philippines after an agreement was reached between the two countries on prisoner transfer laws. Veloso was finally released from prison and repatriated to Manila in mid-December 2024. Her case, among others, aroused international attention and widespread scrutiny of Indonesia's capital punishment and drug prohibition laws.