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Cherry May Ricafort instructed the workers to keep quiet and not talk to anyone about their working conditions.
“Marcos and his cronies are spineless cowards who would rather fill their pockets as their countrymen suffer. There is no future for their exploitation and greed in a society that we want to build."
“We shall also revisit and exhaust other options and channels to ensure that Mary Jane is rightfully saved from the gallows on legal, political and humanitarian grounds.”
Migrant advocates are calling on President Duterte to do everything in his power to save Mary Jane and all innocent OFW's on death row.
"We urge you to provide genuine service to our sector and stop taking advantage of the Immigration Department's new policy to make money from OFWs.”
“The government’s failure in the early stages of the trial to provide Pawa with a lawyer made an unfavorable verdict possible.”
“They brought her to a situation in which she almost died.”
“This is already a crisis. How does this government define a crisis? Do OFWs need to die of hunger first?”
“What is important now is that the Indonesia’s High Prosecutor himself said the filing of the petition for a second judicial review may or may not affect the carrying out of the death penalty. It was not immediately dismissed.”
Migrante International says the lack of legal assistance by government deprives OFWs due process and lands them straight to jail, in some cases, in death row.
Migrante said that since Pres. Aquino took office, OFWs and their families have borne witness to his government’s criminal neglect and incompetence.
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