President Widodo said that while the legal process in the Philippines is in progress, the execution will be postponed.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo said on Tuesday, September 13, that the execution of Mary Jane Veloso, whose life is on the line of his country’s death row, is temporarily postponed.
Widodo’s temporary suspension of taking Veloso’s life by way of a firing squad follows after President Rodrigo Duterte denied that he has given a ‘go signal’ to executive the Filipina drug mule.
Widodo said on Tuesday afternoon that Mary Jane’s life is temporarily spared out of the Indonesian government’s respect to the legal process in the Philippines.
Mary Jane is yet to appear in court to testify against her recruiters, Maria Kristina Sergio and Julius Lacanilao, whose case is still on-going in the Philippine court.
This was the same reason that Mary Jane’s ‘schedule’ on April 2015 was not met and she was given a temporary reprieve.
“We respect the legal process going on in the Philippines. They’ve still got some work to do there”, said the Indonesian president.
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