# Philippine president pardons drug convict Mary Jane Veloso

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- Reuters, 2026-09-25 04:50 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/philippine-president-pardons-drug-convict-mary-jane-veloso-2026-09-25/?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=6ab5fd7e29ff15000114f890

> Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said Friday that Mary Jane Veloso had received a pardon. Her prison term in the Philippines followed a last-second 2015 reprieve from a firing-squad execution in Indonesia over drug trafficking.