How Filipina Mary Jane Veloso Was Duped into Drug Trafficking and Sentenced to Death in Indonesia
Mary Jane Veloso, a 38-year-old Filipina domestic worker, was arrested in 2010 at the airport in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, for carrying 2.6 kilograms of heroin in her luggage. She was sentenced to death by firing squad in 2015, but was granted a last-minute reprieve after the Philippine government intervened. Veloso has always maintained her innocence, claiming that she was duped by …