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Around 3,800 Filipinos are in jails and prisons overseas, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said.
Of this number, 92 are on death row, DFA Undersecretary Jesus Yabes told ANC Beyond Politics on Tuesday night.
"Most of them are murder and drugs," Yabes said. "There's one for espionage... in Qatar."
Yabes said another Filipino is also set to be executed in Saudi Arabia because the convict's family cannot raise the blood money demanded by the victim's kin.
He said the DFA helps all Filipinos in distress abroad and embassies do not distinguish based on cases.
In the case of Mary Jane Veloso, who was given a stay of execution, Yabes said the DFA's job now is to bring her out of death row in Indonesia, after she was found guilty of smuggling kilos of heroin.
He said DFA Secretary Albert del Rosario personally visited Veloso in March and she requested for educational assistance for her children.
Yabes also said the Social Welfare Department is now helping the Veloso family. - ANC, Beyond Politics, May 5, 2015.
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