Heard PNoy's plea for the lives of three convicted drug smugglers: "...we also arrested and convicted chinese drug smugglers but we don't execute them..." The 3 convicted drug smugglers were caught carrying heroin in excess of 4 to 6 KILOS each. Chinese law prescribes the death penalty when caught smuggling 50 grams.
http://www.gmanews.tv/story/213137/p...h-row-in-china
PHL govt makes last-ditch effort to save 3 Pinoys on death row in China
02/16/2011 | 11:43 AM
The Philippine government is making last-ditch efforts to save three Filipinos facing execution in China over drug trafficking charges.
“Hindi tayo mag-gi-give up. Naka-fullcourt press tayo and we are exerting all possible efforts," Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) spokesman Eduardo Malaya said in an interview on dzRH radio on Wednesday.
(We are not giving up. In basketball, this is like a full-court press. We are exerting all possible efforts.)
Malaya did not elaborate on the "last-ditch efforts" the government was making.
However, Malaya said on Wednesday the cases – and the likely execution - of the three convicts should be a wakeup call to overseas Filipinos.
He said the incident should serve as a wake-up call for Filipinos against becoming unwitting drug couriers.
He reminded Filipinos abroad not to agree to carrying other people’s baggage, especially if they had just met the person at the airport or online.
“Our people must take full responsibility for their actions by being on guard," he said.
If he executions push through, he said this will be the first time that Filipinos are executed in China for drug-related offenses.
He noted 72 earlier cases of Filipinos in drug-related cases were given two-year reprieves.
“Nguni’t dapat alalahanin natin may mga taga-ibang bansa na na-execute na rin ng drug trafficking sa China (But we should keep in mind that other nationalities had been executed for drug trafficking in China)," he said.
Among the foreigners executed for drug-related offenses in China were British, Malaysian, Japanese, Singaporean, Pakistani, Mongolian and Afghan nationals, Malaya said.
Malaya said China has a “very strong" policy against drug trafficking and possession “at dapat irespeto ang batas (and we must respect that)."
Families to seek sympathy
Malaya said while the DFA will not publicly name the three convicts, the families of the three Filipino convicts’ families may seek public sympathy through the media.
“Kanilang option yan kung gusto nila lumantad at banggitin ang pangalan ng mahal sa buhay (It is up to them to come out and seek sympathy for their loved ones)," he said. – VVP, GMA News
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February 16th, 2011 02:13 PM #1Last edited by Monseratto; February 16th, 2011 at 02:23 PM.
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February 16th, 2011 02:21 PM #2well, it's our fault we don't have death penalty for drug dealers
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sino pala ang against death penalty dito?
the Catholic Church
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February 16th, 2011 02:24 PM #3Unfortunately for PNoy Catholicism has no great hold on Chinese lawmakers and they do cherish the death penalty over there...
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February 16th, 2011 02:35 PM #4If you do the crime, then you gotta do the time, but in this instance time's up.
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February 16th, 2011 02:52 PM #5Same situation with Flor Contemplacion, kung kelan malapit na ang bitay tsaka maghahabol, magmamakaawa at aapela....
Iaapela na lang nila siguro dito is mapababa ang sentensya from bitay to life....hirap din sa sitwasyon ang PHL, mantakin mo na idedepensa mo yung drug dealer (na biktima lang din)....
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February 16th, 2011 03:43 PM #6
Such foolish actions put the government in a quandary...
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February 16th, 2011 04:00 PM #7As usual our government would make a plea to spare the lives of the 3 Pinoys, they have not learned from past lessons like the Contemplacion Story, even our congressman pleaded to a lesser offense in Hong Kong just to escape the capital offense of drug trafficking....."Nakakahiya na talaga tayo."
Chances are those 3 Pinoys sad to say have a date with the angel of death and no amount of "full court press" could extricate them from their fate.
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February 16th, 2011 04:08 PM #8Dapat i-death penalty din yung mga g*gong chinese na nagsmuggle din ng drugs! Bawian na lang! Di man lang maawa doon sa pamilya nung 3 pinoy. Tsk.
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February 16th, 2011 04:13 PM #9Sabihin mo sa Tongressman's natin to make a death penalty law... This is not a simple case of tit for tat. They allow death penalty, we don't! Simple! Originally Posted by beni23
Dapat i-death penalty din yung mga g*gong chinese na nagsmuggle din ng drugs! Bawian na lang! Di man lang maawa doon sa pamilya nung 3 pinoy. Tsk.
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February 16th, 2011 04:17 PM #10 Originally Posted by beni23
Dapat i-death penalty din yung mga g*gong chinese na nagsmuggle din ng drugs! Bawian na lang! Di man lang maawa doon sa pamilya nung 3 pinoy. Tsk.
The problem here is that when there is a drug bust, the offenders bribe their way out of harm. We also don't have a death penalty in our existing laws. RP can only appeal but they should also respect their laws. The ball is in their court.
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February 16th, 2011 04:56 PM #12Random thoughts regarding the matter.
- The law applies to all or none at all. You go to another country, you must respect their laws.
- Evidence doesn't lie. What does it say?
- Typical Filipino clan mentality. "Waaah, my family member is a good person!" Watch as the typical brainless indio (most especially those stupid leftists) sprout anti-Chinese slogans because of this. You know it happened with the Contemplacion case.
- Chinese government one of the most infamous when it comes to getting what they want, never mind logic or fair play. Kung Japan nga di sila takot gag*hun, tayo pa kaya?
- So, did the Chinese government ask the families to buy the bullets to be used to shoot the convicts? I remember I've read somewhere that's what they do to death-row inmates in China: the family of the convict has to shoulder the cost of the bullet to be used to shoot the convict.
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February 16th, 2011 05:02 PM #13Ang pagkarinig ko sa balita eh may nagbigay lang ata sakanya ng bag? Originally Posted by jave
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February 16th, 2011 05:17 PM #14then he deserves to be shot just by being so stupid, i mean c'mon somebody gives you a bag, 4-6kilos of heroin then you just waltz in the airport??? i think he snorted a kilo of that stuff that's why his reasoning is so idiotic Originally Posted by beni23
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February 16th, 2011 05:33 PM #15kung papakawalan nila yung nahuli sa ganyan excuse, gagamitin din ng tunay na criminal ang ganyan excuse... pag nahuli siya, papakawalan din siya Originally Posted by beni23
so burden tuloy sa authorities yan
kailangan nila i-differentiate kung sino ang innocent drug courier at kung sino ang tunay na criminal?
duh
di pwede ganyan
mawawalan ng kwenta yung batas
if they let the innocent drug mules go, then every real drug smuggler who gets caught will just say "hey, it's not mine, somebody asked me to carry it"
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February 16th, 2011 06:28 PM #16dapat ba baguhin ng China ang batas nila dahil sa katangahan ng ilang pinoy?
the responsibility falls on the Phil. govt
the Phil. govt should tell its people not to become stupid drug mules
it's not China that should bend
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February 16th, 2011 06:32 PM #17China won't bend... Hahaha they even bully Japan around (remember the fisherman fiasco? Sino bumigay in the end? JAPAN! They released the Chinese fisherman and China didn't pay for damages on Japanese ships), Pilipinas pa kaya...
Hay its SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST yet again in demonstration...
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February 16th, 2011 06:48 PM #18on the world stage, siga ang China Originally Posted by tidus1203
ang Pinas? wala. employment agency
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February 16th, 2011 07:04 PM #19haha. . .as if china will listen to them
ang bababaw talaga ng mga opisyales ng gobyerno natin. . .kung seryoso silang sagipin yung mga convicted pinoys e gamitin ang diplomats at makipag-usap ng closed door with their counterparts
pag me nagyayaring ganyan e dinadaan sa publicity/media para masabi na me ginagawa sila. . .pero ang totoo e nakakasama pa kasi kung anu-anong stupid comments ang lumalabas sa kanila--nabibisto lang ng buong mundo kung ano ang laman ng mga utak nila
para sa kanila, lahat e madadaan sa publicity
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