BY SUCCESS KANAYO UCHIME
Chinese Government has set coming week as the date for the execution of the three Filipinos, Ramon Credo, 42, Sally Villanueva, 32, and Elizabeth Batin, 38 that were recently convicted of drug offences.
This development is contained in a statement by the Agence France-Presse (AFP) adding that the Philippines Government said it will no more make any appeals to salvage their lives.
Speaking on this, the foreign department spokesman, Ed Malaya said the Philippines government respects the laws of China and the final judgment of the Chinese People's Court. "All sentences will be carried out in one day."
(Philippines President Benigo “Noynoy” Aquino III)
He noted that Chinese court officials had informed Philippine authorities that the three convicts will be executed next Wednesday adding that Philippine authorities had gone to great lengths in a bid to save the three, who were convicted in 2008 of trafficking heroin, and made repeated appeals for their sentences to be commuted to life in jail.
Malaya noted that the government had insisted that the three, who are among 227 Filipinos jailed in China for drug offences, were from poor families and were duped into becoming drug mules by crime gangs. “Vice President Jejomar BinayJejomar Binay went to Beijing last month to plead for their lives.”
He said Chinese authorities responded to his move only by delaying their executions stressing that they were originally scheduled to be executed in February, but said they would eventually be put to death.
“The foreign department said the relatives of the death row inmates had been informed of the impending executions, and arrangements were being made for them to leave for China to see them for the last time,” he also stated.
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Chinese Government has set coming week as the date for the execution of the three Filipinos, Ramon Credo, 42, Sally Villanueva, 32, and Elizabeth Batin, 38 that were recently convicted of drug offences.
This development is contained in a statement by the Agence France-Presse (AFP) adding that the Philippines Government said it will no more make any appeals to salvage their lives.
Speaking on this, the foreign department spokesman, Ed Malaya said the Philippines government respects the laws of China and the final judgment of the Chinese People's Court. "All sentences will be carried out in one day."
(Philippines President Benigo “Noynoy” Aquino III)
He noted that Chinese court officials had informed Philippine authorities that the three convicts will be executed next Wednesday adding that Philippine authorities had gone to great lengths in a bid to save the three, who were convicted in 2008 of trafficking heroin, and made repeated appeals for their sentences to be commuted to life in jail.
Malaya noted that the government had insisted that the three, who are among 227 Filipinos jailed in China for drug offences, were from poor families and were duped into becoming drug mules by crime gangs. “Vice President Jejomar BinayJejomar Binay went to Beijing last month to plead for their lives.”
He said Chinese authorities responded to his move only by delaying their executions stressing that they were originally scheduled to be executed in February, but said they would eventually be put to death.
“The foreign department said the relatives of the death row inmates had been informed of the impending executions, and arrangements were being made for them to leave for China to see them for the last time,” he also stated.
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