Mary Jane Veloso, who received a last-minute reprieve from execution by firing squad for drug trafficking in Indonesia in 2015, arrived in the Philippines in the early hours of Wednesday after years of negotiations between the two Southeast Asian countries.

Mother of two, who became a poster child for anti-trafficking groups, now awaits potential pardon in a Manila prison.

Mary Jane Veloso, a Filipina domestic worker, was arrested in Indonesia in 2010 after 2.6 kilograms of heroin were discovered hidden in her suitcase. Veloso, who had been recruited for a job in Indonesia,

Filipino death row convict Mary Jane Veloso has finally returned home to the Philippines after more than a decade of detention in Indonesia for drug trafficking. Veloso arrived at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport via a Cebu Pacific commercial flight.

Mary Jane Veloso is back in the Philippines after spending 14 years in prison in Indonesia, during which she came within hours of execution after being convicted of heroin smuggling.

Mary Jane Veloso, a Filipina woman who spent nearly 15 years on death row in Indonesia for drug trafficking, has finally returned to the Philippines, BBC News reports. Veloso was sentenced to death in 2010 after 2.