OFWs to hold protest camp in Mendiola on day of execution of Filipino in China
“We can’t stand idly by and allow another OFW to be executed because the Philippine government failed to exert all diplomatic means to save him. We call on all Filipinos to come together and call for the commutation of our kababayan’s sentence in China.” – Migrante International
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
Bulatlat.com
MANILA — The global alliance of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) Migrante International today slammed “government neglect” regarding the case of a 35-year-old Filipino who is reportedly scheduled for execution in China on December 8. The group plans to hold a protest camp-out in Mendiola on the said day to highlight what it said as the Aquino administration’s shameful lack of support for OFWs.
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) recently announced that the High People’s Court of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region had convicted the Filipino of smuggling 1.495 kilos of heroin into China.
The man’s family instructed the DFA not to release to the public his name and where he lives in the Philippines.
DFA reports state that this is the last death penalty conviction without reprieve on drug trafficking in China’s highest court. Six Filipinos had previously received the death penalty conviction without reprieve. Three cases were affirmed by China’s highest court: Ramon Credo, Sally Ordinario-Villanueva and Elizabeth Batain, while those of the other two were lowered to death penalty with two-year reprieve.
Migrante International lights candles in a protest action in Boys Scout Circle for the OFW in deathrow in China(Photo by Janess Ann J. Ellao / bulatlat.com)
“In the cases concerning Filipinos on China death row, we have brought them to the attention of the government as early as February last year, way before the execution of our three kababayans there last March. Now the Aquino government is falling all over itself supposedly trying to help. The countdown to the execution has begun, but its stepping up its efforts only now,” he said.
The labor leader called on the Aquino government to exert all possible means to save the life of the Filipino on death row. “We can’t stand idly by and allow another OFW to be executed because the Philippine government failed to exert all diplomatic means to save him. We call on all Filipinos to come together and call for the commutation of our kababayan’s sentence in China.”.... MORE
Source: Bulatlat.com
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1 comment
Is there something about his drug trafficking case that the rest of the world should know about?
Otherwise, what does that make you protesters look like?
Ang lakas ng kapit, mismong pangalawang pangulo ang poder. Who is this citizen anyway?
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