Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso (born 10 January 1985[1]) is a Filipino who was arrested in Indonesia for drug trafficking in 2010 and then sentenced to death. Granted a temporary reprieve in 2015, she has remained on death row ever since. Veloso has always maintained her innocence throughout her 14 years of incarceration. 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. Her case, among others, aroused international attention and widespread scrutiny of Indonesia's capital punishment and drug prohibition laws.
Biography
Veloso was born in Cabanatuan, Nueva Ecija, where she was the youngest of five siblings of a family who lived in extreme poverty.[3] Her father worked as a seasonal agricultural worker on sugar cane plantations of the José Cojuangco-owned Hacienda Luisita,[4] while also selling plastic-ware out of a pushcart and collecting discarded bottles and plastic to sell to junk shops.[5] Veloso dropped out in her first year of high school.[6][7][8] and married her husband when she was around 17 years old, however they later separated resulting in her becoming a single mother to two young sons.[9]
To help provide for her family, Veloso emigrated to Dubai in 2009 to work as a household service worker, however she soon returned to the Philippines before the end of her two-year contract after an attempted rape by her employer.[10]
Background to arrest
In April 2010, Veloso was recruited by Maria Kristina Sergio to be employed as a domestic servant in Malaysia. To cover administrative costs, Veloso paid Sergio ₱20,000 in cash as well as giving her a motorcycle and her cell phone. On arrival in Kuala Lumpur, Sergio told Veloso that the job was no longer available, however she had arranged similar employment in Indonesia for her instead,[4] so Veloso stayed at the Sun Inn Lagoon Hotel in Bandar Sunway while waiting for her next flight a few days later. As Veloso had arrived in Malaysia with only 2 pairs of jeans and a couple of tee shirts, Sergio brought her shopping at the nearby Sunway Pyramid for new clothes to wear.[11] Realizing all of the additional items would not fit into her small backpack, Sergio gave her a new empty suitcase to pack her things into.[12] Sergio then introduced Veloso to a Malaysian based African man named 'Ike', who gave her an Air Asia plane ticket and a cell phone number to call once she landed in Indonesia.[13]
Arrest in Indonesia
On 25 April 2010, Veloso arrived at Adisucipto International Airport in Yogyakarta. Airport officials scanning Veloso's luggage in the X-ray machine were alerted to unusual objects and ordered her bag to be fully searched. After finding nothing illegal amongst her possessions, the now empty suitcase was again scanned, and the customs officers confirmed they had detected suspicious items within it.[4] After dismantling Veloso's suitcase the officers discovered 2.6 kilograms (5.7 lb) of heroin hidden in the inner lining (worth an estimated US$500,000), which had been wrapped in aluminum foil and black plastic in an effort to avoid discovery.[12][14] After her arrest, Mary Jane was provided with neither legal advice nor an interpreter or a Tagalog translator, even though the police interrogated her in Indonesian (a language she did not understand).[15]
After learning of Mary Jane's arrest, and getting details of the events that lead to it while speaking to her via a phone call from an Indonesian prison, Veloso's relatives travelled to Talavera to confront Maria Kristina Sergio. They were warned not to contact the authorities or speak to the local media, as the international drug trafficking organization Sergio claimed to be a member of would take revenge on both Mary Jane and the rest of the Veloso family too if they exposed their activities. Disregarding the warning, the Veloso family travelled to Manila in August 2010 to inform the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) of Mary Jane's plight. They also attempted to file a criminal case against Sergio with the National Bureau of Investigation, however they were informed they could not lodge a complaint due to a lack of evidence.[16]
Trial and verdict
On 4 October 2010, Veloso's trial began in Yogyakarta's Sleman District Court. Throughout her trial she maintained her innocence, claiming that she was duped into carrying the suitcase by her recruiter, a godsister of hers named Maria Kristina Sergio, who convinced her to travel to Indonesia after failing to get a job in Malaysia.[17][18][8]
Veloso was represented during her trial by a state-funded attorney with little experience in capital cases, and
her court-appointed interpreter was an unlicensed student who translated proceedings from Bahasa into English, a language which Mary Jane had only a limited proficiency in.[12] The result of these errors was that throughout her trial Veloso had no meaningful understanding of the legal proceedings and could not communicate effectively with her lawyer, the court officials, or the trial judge. An appellate lawyer would later remark that a pivotal moment occurred when the trial judge asked Veloso, in Bahasa Indonesian, if she regretted trafficking heroin into the country from Malaysia. As she didn't speak the language, Mary Jane didn’t understand the question, and struggling for an answer under pressure she eventually replied "No".[15]
On 11 October 2010 Veloso was found guilty as charged, with the court ruling "the accused could not prove the truth of her unawareness in court, so the accused’s denial cannot legally be used as a reason to free her of criminal responsibility”, adding that her denial of guilt was an aggravating factor.[19] Despite public prosecutor Sri Anggraeni recommending life imprisonment as punishment,
Veloso was sentenced to death by the presiding judge.[6] When the court’s sentence against her was read out in Indonesian and then translated into English, Veloso did not understand its meaning. It was only later she realized she had received the death penalty after a priest explained it to her.[19]
On 25 April 2015, during a death row visit by her family and officials from the Philippine's Department of Foreign Affairs, Veloso handed over four handwritten letters addressed to Philippine PresidentBenigno Aquino III, the youth and women of the Philippines, and to those she held responsible for what happened to her. The letters pleaded with the President to help spare her from the death penalty for the sake of her children, while also warning Filipino youth and women not to be fooled by illegal recruiters. To the people who she believes set her up, Veloso said they would have a guilty conscience for the rest of their lives unless they came forward to save her, while also stating that she prayed God would forgive them for all the evil they had committed.[22]
"For the people who ruined my life: I would like to convey to them that their hearts will be troubled by the evil they have done and they will stop their bad jobs so that no one will be harmed like me and no one will become a victim of illegal work in another country. You know that I am innocent and I will be hanged for a sin I did not commit, even if the execution continues with me I know that the Lord God does not sleep and He will give me equality for everything that happened to me. I hope your minds will be clear and you will feel sorry, I hope the person who ruined my life will be caught as soon as possible and that no one will be a victim like me. For me, it is very painful and very difficult to accept that it is necessary to go through all this because of people like you who do bad things. But even though it was so bad that you did to me, I still always pray to you Lord God and ask for forgiveness for all the sins and evil you have done. It's not too late for a change, don't get too involved, there's still a future waiting for you if you come forward and ask for forgiveness from everyone you've sinned against. Trust in God"[22]
Letter from death row by Mary Jane Veloso addressed to those she held responsible for her arrest and death sentence
On the morning of 28 April 2015, Maria Kristina Sergio unexpectedly surrendered to Philippine authorities at Nueva Ecija Police Station in Luzon, claiming to have received death threats through online social media and via text message, saying that if Veloso was executed as scheduled she herself would be murdered in revenge.[24] Sergio was about to be indicted by the National Bureau of Investigation on charges of illegal recruitment, human trafficking, and estafa in relation to Veloso's case and claimed she turned herself in to prove her innocence of all the accusations against her.[25]
A few hours later, Veloso had a final visit with her family and two sons (aged 12 and 6) in the death row visiting room of Nusa Kambangan prison. Speaking to her eldest son, she told him "Don't think that I died because I did something wrong. Be proud of your mother because she died owning up to the sins of others".[26] When she was told that visiting time had ended and she had to say goodbye to her sons for the last time, Veloso broke down with emotion, saying: "Will I not get longer with my children? They’ll never see me again, I’ll never see them again!”. The prison guards in the room reportedly found the scene so heart wrenching they all broke down into tears.[27]
Stay of execution
Sergio's surrender prompted Philippine President Aquino to appeal for clemency on the basis that her testimony could be invaluable in prosecuting her alleged recruiter.[28] Philippine authorities then invoked the ASEAN Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT),[29] obliging Indonesia to offer Veloso as a state witness in the ensuing human trafficking case,[5] as Veloso's alleged trafficker Maria Kristina Sergio, along with Sergio's live-in partner Julius Lacanilao and an African national tentatively identified as "Ike", would face charges of human trafficking, illegal recruiting and estafa (fraud).[30]
At around 10pm, after the condemned prisoners had been locked in their cells for the final time to speak with their religious advisers, Indonesian police officers entered Veloso's cell to announce her execution had been called off, and then escorted her off the island back to Yogyakarta.[27][31] Just after 11pm, the other eight condemned prisoners were driven one by one to the execution site and simultaneously put to death as scheduled by firing squad at approximately 12:35am.[32]
President Aquino spokesmanHerminio Coloma released a statement soon after saying: “We would like to acknowledge their sense of fairness in assessing new information we provided and their understanding that Mary Jane Veloso is a person who went to their country in search of a better life, better opportunity, but was taken advantaged of by criminal syndicates”.[33]
News of Veloso's reprieve came so close to the scheduled time of her execution that several news outlets reported preemptively that it had occurred.[34] The front-page headline on the Philippine Daily Inquirer newspaper read "Death Came Before Dawn", while Manila-based tabloid Abante printed a front page picture of Veloso along with a headline in capitals that translated as: “Farewell, Mary Jane”.[35] Veloso's mother was quoted as believing her daughter was spared by "a miracle".[36]
At a 27 May 2015 joint hearing of the Philippine House Committee on Dangerous Drugs in Manila, National Bureau of Investigation Director Virgilio Mendez announced that Veloso's two sons and their father would be immediately admitted into the Witness Protection Program, after unidentified armed men had been seen acting suspiciously near their home in Luzon.[37]
Incarceration on death row
In July 2015, Manny Pacquiao visited Veloso and prayed with her on the death row section of Wirogunan prison in Yogyakarta.[38] He had previously written a letter to the President of Indonesia Joko Widodo begging for him to grant executive clemency to Veloso on the eve of her scheduled execution a few months prior.[39] Pacquiao also visited the Indonesian Parliament in Jakarta to discuss Veloso's case and to thank the Indonesian government for the postponement of her execution while legal proceedings were ongoing in the Philippines.[40]
According to The Jakarta Post, on 12 September 2016, Indonesia President Widodo reported that Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte had authorized Veloso's execution.[41][42] However, on the same day, a Manila Bulletin article that Manny Piñol, the Philippine Agriculture Secretary, said that Duterte had actually asked for clemency for Veloso.[43] Veloso was still awaiting execution in her Indonesian prison cell on 19 June 2017.[44]
On 10 March 2021, Veloso was moved from Wirogunan II A women's prison to Wonosari II B women's prison in Gunung Kidul Regency, Yogyakarta, where she continued to earn money to send for her family by making batik cloth, with each sheet selling for between 600.000 and several million rupiah.[45]
In February 2023, during a visit by a womens aid NGO to Wonosari Prison, Veloso handed over two hand written letters addressed to the governments of the Philippines and Indonesia, which contained appeals for clemency and a plea for the criminal trial against her illegal recruiter Maria Kristina Sergio to proceed with urgency.[46]
On 12 June 2023, Veloso's parents and two sons visited her in Wonosari Prison for the first time in four years.[47] That same month Veloso was diagnosed as having a potentially malignant ovarian cyst, which prompted calls from both her mother and her lawyer Ryan Pinoa for a commutation of Veloso's sentence to life imprisonment on medical grounds, in the hope it would allow her to more effectively seek medical treatment for her health issues.[48]
During the May 2023 ASEAN Summit in Labuan Bajo, Marcos discussed Veloso's case with Indonesian President Joko Widodo and requested that the Indonesian government review the circumstances of her arrest and conviction. [50] As well as clemency or a commutation of jail term, President Marcos Jr also proposed the extradition of Veloso to serve the remainder of any sentence in the Philippines as an alternative option.[51]
In January 2024, during an official three-day visit to Manila, Indonesian President Joko Widodo assured Marcos that the Indonesian government would “re-examine” Veloso's conviction for trafficking heroin, with Marcos hoping that clemency would ultimately be granted to Veloso.[52] Philippine Foreign Secretary Enrique Manalo had reiterated his government's long standing request for the granting of clemency to Indonesian Foreign Secretary Retno Marsudi at an earlier meeting at during the same diplomatic visit.[53]
Release from prison
In November 2024, the possibility of transfer of Veloso to a Philippine prison where she will serve her remaining sentence or receive pardon was being considered by the Government of Indonesia, as it was in the process of formulating a policy to resolve the issue of foreign prisoners in their country, either through bilateral negotiations or transfer of prisoner as part of constructive diplomacy.[54] On 20 November 2024, Philippine president Bongbong Marcos announced that Veloso would soon return to the Philippines after more than a decade of diplomacy and consultations with the Indonesian government.[55] Marcos also extended his gratitude to Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto and his government for their goodwill in releasing Veloso.[56] Indonesian minister Yusril Ihza Mahendra released a statement that Veloso would be transferred in December 2024 to serve the rest of her sentence in the Philippines.[57]
At a separate news conference, DFA official Eduardo Jose de Vega told that the ultimate goal was for the president to issue clemency after her transfer to the custody of Philippine authorities.[57] De Vega cautioned that Veloso was unlikely to be immediately freed on her return, and that mutual agreement would be needed with the Indonesian government as to when clemency should be granted. Philippine Justice Assistant Secretary Mico Clavano added that in the eyes of the law that while the Philippines will have physical custody of her, Indonesia would still retain legal custody, and that while the Indonesian government had not requested anything in return for Veloso's release, they were not surrendering their jurisdiction over the case either. Clavano also said that while no decision on where she would be detained had yet been reached, the Correctional Institution for Women in the Manila suburb of Mandaluyong was one option being considered.[58] Veloso herself released a statement expressing gratitude to all those who had worked to have her transferred to the Philippines, adding that she would use Indonesian cloth-dying techniques she learned in prison to earn money for her family on her return home. [59]
Related legal cases in the Philippines
On 5 May 2015, Bassit Sarip, Executive Officer of the N.B.I's Anti-human Trafficking Division, announced that Maria Kristina Sergio was under investigation in a case with the same modus operandi with Veloso, where a Filipina named Judy Tosi was promised employment as a maid in Thailand in 2010, however when she arrived there to meet Sergio she was then sent to Hong Kong instead.[60] Sergio also gave Tosi luggage to bring on her trip, and when she arrived at Hong Kong International Airport Tosi was arrested for drug trafficking after 800 grams of heroin was discovered hidden inside the bag.[61][62]
On 7 May 2015, the Philippines Department of Justice released a document created by the National Bureau of Investigation[63] containing admissions by Maria Kristina Sergio that she had been working for a Malaysia based West African international drug trafficking organization since 2009, where her primary role was to recruit drug mules from the Philippines to deliver narcotics worldwide.[64] The document further stated that Sergio had travelled extensively to Thailand, Hong Kong, and Singapore over the previous 6 years, and that she used the promise of gainful employment abroad as a way to entice potential recruits to work as couriers.[65]Justice SecretaryLeila de Lima also released a statement that intelligence from the Philippine National Police and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency indicated that Sergio had started as a drug mule herself before being promoted to a recruiter on behalf of the crime syndicate she smuggled narcotics for.[66]
On 20 May 2015, Sergio submitted a counter-affidavit to the Department of Justice in relation to the charges brought by the N.B.I, denying all allegations of involvement with Veloso's legal issues and instead blaming two West African men named "Ike" and "John" for tricking her into carrying the suitcase containing drugs to Indonesia.[67] On 9 July 2015, the Department of Justice approved on the filing of charges of illegal recruitment, estafa, and human trafficking against Maria Kristina Sergio and her partner, Julius Lacanilao.[68] On 18 September 2015, Maria Kristina Sergio and Julius Lacanilao pleaded not guilty to all charges during their arraignment at the Baloc Regional Trial Court in Nueva Ecija.[69]
In August 2016, motions were heard to depose Veloso's testimony regarding the human trafficking charges against Maria Kristina Sergio and Julius Lacanilao. The motion was granted, but no time was set for when the deposition was to occur. Judge Reyes denied a defense motion in November to block the deposition, stating she found no compelling reason to reverse her decision.[70] On 13 February 2017, the Hon. Anarica J. Castillo-Reyes affirmed the motion to take Veloso's deposition. The resolution scheduled the deposition to be done on 27 April 2017.[71] The Court of Appeals ordered a temporary restraining order on 24 March, preventing the prosecutor from interviewing Veloso.[72] Associate Justice Ramon M. Bato Jr., on behalf of the Court of Appeals, issued a proclamation on 22 May finding in favor of the defense motion that disallowed taking Veloso's deposition, because it was claiming that it violated the plaintiffs' right to face their accuser.[73]
On 16 June 2017, the Veloso family filed a motion for reconsideration through the National Union of Peoples' Lawyers (NUPL), asking the Court of Appeals to rescind the order preventing the prosecutor from deposing Veloso at the Yogyakarta prison. The family's argument for the motion was that Veloso may run out of time and be executed before she could testify. The motion stated, "No damage can be irreparable as what Mary Jane stands to suffer — to be muzzled before she is silenced forever, to die without ever being heard.”[44] The Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) also requested the Court of Appeals to reconsider their ruling.[74][75] The appeals court later affirmed their decision on 5 June 2018 through Bato, dismissing the motion filed by the OSG.[76]
On 3 September 2018, the Veloso family, along with their lawyers from the NUPL, took the case to the Philippine's highest court, the Supreme Court of the Philippines, in an attempt to overturn the decision made by the Court of Appeals.[77] In January 2019, rumors that Veloso had been executed spread, which were denied by both Indonesia's Attorney General's Office and her lawyer.[78] After more than a year, on 9 October 2019, the Supreme Court granted the petition and reversed the Court of Appeals' decision preventing Veloso's deposition, stating that "to disallow the written interrogatories will curtail Mary Jane's right to due process".[79] After a denied motion filed by lawyers from the Public Attorney's Office representing Sergio and Lacanilao, the Supreme Court reaffirmed their 2019 decision in a resolution dated 14 August 2020.[80][81] Preparations for her testimony have begun, but a final date is yet to be set due to logistics issues caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, which had affected both the Philippines and Indonesia.[82][83]
On 14 January 2020, the Nueva Ecija Regional Trial Court found Maria Cristina Sergio and Julius Lacanilao guilty in a separate illegal overseas employment recruitment case. Judge Anarica Castillo-Reyes sentenced the pair to life imprisonment and also imposed a PHP2,000,000 fine for violating Republic Act 8042 (a.k.a the Migrant Workers and Overseas Filipinos Act of 1995).[84] The court ruled that evidence proved both had attempted to recruit three Filipinas (Lorna Valino, Ana Marie Gonzales and Jenalyn Paraiso) for employment abroad, but they did not have the legally required license from the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration to do so.[85]
In December 2020, the Government of Indonesia granted permission for the taking of depositions from Veloso via written interrogatories under the following conditions:[86]
the deposition taking would be conducted only by officials appointed by the Indonesian Attorney General
a consular officer from the Philippine Embassy in Jakarta may be present during the deposition taking
the actual deposition taking would be conducted at the prison facility Veloso was currently an inmate of in Yogyakarta City
no video cameras may be used in the taking of her testimony
none of the lawyers in the Filipino legal case shall be present during the taking of her testimony
the questions Veloso was to be asked must be furnished in writing in advance of the deposition taking
On 21 March 2022, the Supreme Court of the Philippines conclusively dismissed the earlier Court of Appeals decision in favour of Sergio and Lacanilao, ruling that Veloso was in fact allowed by Philippine law to give her testimony in Sergio and Lacanilao's case by deposition through written interrogatories under Rules 23 and 25 of the Rules of Court of the Philippines.[86]
In light of the November 2024 announcement of Veloso's proposed prisoner transfer back to the Philippines, Justice Assistant Secretary Mico Clavano commented that the ongoing case against Maria Kristina Sergio and Julius Lacanilao regarding human trafficking charges at the Regional Trial Court of Nueva Ecija would now proceed much quicker, as it had previously stalled due to Veloso being unable to testify while being imprisoned in Indonesia, and that she would now be able to finally testify against her alleged recruiters in open court.[58]
The petition for her release at Change.org was the fastest-growing petition from the Philippines ever and gained over 250,000 signatories from over 125 countries.[96] On 27 April 2015, during the ASEAN Summit in Kuala Lumpur, representatives from the ASEAN Youth Forum met with Widodo in an attempt to save Veloso's life.[97]
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