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Philippines weighs pardon for death row inmate repatriated from Indonesia

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Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr is weighing an absolute pardon for Mary Jane Veloso, a former death row inmate detained since her 2010 conviction for drug trafficking in Indonesia.

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