{"id":47940,"date":"2015-04-28T23:02:18","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T15:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=47940"},"modified":"2025-01-18T20:00:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T01:00:36","slug":"pacquiao-to-widodo-spare-velosos-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/04\/28\/pacquiao-to-widodo-spare-velosos-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacquiao to Widodo: Spare Veloso\u2019s life"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1532\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1532\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Page-41-manny-pacquiao-1024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1532\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Page-41-manny-pacquiao-1024.jpg\" alt=\"People's Champ Manny 'Pacman' Pacquiao (HBO.com)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Page-41-manny-pacquiao-1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Page-41-manny-pacquiao-1024-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1532\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">People&#8217;s Champ Manny &#8216;Pacman&#8217; Pacquiao (HBO.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Filipino boxing icon Manny Pacquiao sent Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Monday an appeal for clemency on drug trafficking convict Mary Jane Veloso.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis Excellency, President Joko Widodo, I am Manny Pacquiao. On behalf of my countryman, Mary Jane Veloso, and the entire Filipino people, I am begging and knocking on your kind heart that Your Excellency will grant executive clemency to her by sparing her life and saving her life from execution,\u201d Pacquiao said in a televised interview.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy bactrim online <a href=\"https:\/\/drbrassie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/bactrim.html\">https:\/\/drbrassie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/bactrim.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr President, on May 2nd, I&#8217;ll be fighting in Las Vegas, Nevada, against Floyd Mayweather.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy propranolol online <a href=\"https:\/\/drbrassie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/propranolol.html\">https:\/\/drbrassie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/propranolol.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> It is considered the fight of the century. It will be a great morale booster if, in my own little way, I can save a life. I am dedicating this fight to my country and the entire Asian people, to which the Philippines and Indonesia belong. Thank you, Mr President,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy soft cialis online <a href=\"https:\/\/drbrassie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/soft-cialis.html\">https:\/\/drbrassie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/soft-cialis.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Pacquiao also urged Filipinos to keep praying for Veloso.<\/p>\n<p>Prior Pacquiao\u2019s appeal, President Benigno Aquino III also appealed to President Widodo after the 26th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit.<\/p>\n<p>President Aquino\u00a0also recently talked to Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi asserting that Veloso\u2019s life should be spared as she could be a state witness to the drug syndicate in Indonesia, especially now that her alleged recruiters have already surrendered.<\/p>\n<p>Despite various pleas, Indonesian authorities stood firm on their decision and asserted that the Philippines should respect their laws. Thus, Veloso\u2019s execution by firing squad will still push through and may be carried out today, by midnight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filipino boxing icon Manny Pacquiao sent Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Monday an appeal for clemency on drug trafficking convict &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":1532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-jane-moraleda","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285565,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47940\/revisions\/285565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}