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1 online resource (streaming video file) (28 min. 26 sec.) ; 172308381 bytes |
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With just minutes to spare, mother-of-two Mary Jane Veloso escaped the firing squad that executed Australia's Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran. How was she saved - and will she make it home to her children? Zoe Daniel reports.Deep into the night on Indonesia's "Execution Island", nine condemned drug traffickers await a firing squad's volley of bullets. Across the water, families and supporters gather in despair. But when word finally arrives, one family erupts in joy. A single life has been spared - Filipina maid Mary Jane Veloso has won a temporary stay of execution.Mary Jane Veloso's reprieve came after a huge upwelling of public support back home in the Philippines. But, as Foreign Correspondent reveals, a key role was also played by a small team of human rights lawyers in the Philippines and Australia. "We connected across the ocean if you like. I've never even met her but there I am sitting in my office and I've got the piece of law that can save her." - Darwin barrister Reporter Zoe Daniel tells how the legal team is fronting up to its next challenge: getting Mary Jane off death row and back home to her family. If successful, their argument just might save not only Mary Jane but also other drug mules facing execution.Mary Jane's lawyers say she was not trafficking drugs when she was caught with 2.6 kilos of heroin. They say she was in fact a trafficked person - poor, vulnerable and deceived - and should be set free."She was not selling, she was not buying, she was not using." - Filipino lawyer Edre OlaliaNow her fate is intertwined with that of the woman she accuses of duping her into carrying drugs, her former neighbour Kristina Sergio. If Kristina Sergio is convicted of illegally recruiting her, Mary Jane Veloso's chances of winning her freedom grow.But in the court - and in the street when she talks to Zoe Daniel - Kristina protests her innocence. Meanwhile Mary Jane Veloso waits on death row. "If you shoot her, you might as well shoot every exploited person." - Darwin barrister |
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Closed captioning in English |
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Broadcast 2015-07-07 at 20:00:00 |
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Classification: NC |
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Death row.
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Drug traffic.
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Drugs of abuse -- Law and legislation.
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Foreign workers -- Employment.
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Philippines.
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Indonesia.
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Streaming video
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Daniel, Zoe, reporter
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Areza, Howard, contributor
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Gerry, Felicity, contributor
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Olalia, Edre, contributor
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Pacquiao, Manny, contributor
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Sergio, Kristina, contributor
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