A Filipino migrant rights group in the Middle East today asks the Department of Foreign Affairs-Office of the Undersecretary for Migrant Affairs (OUMWA) and the Philippine Embassy in Riyadh to investigate the alleged heavy beating of an OFW on death row in a central jail in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. “The family of an OFW on…
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Migrant Group Urges Gov’t to Ask for Reinvestigation of the Cases of OFWs
“Give them justice, not clemency.” This was the call of relatives of OFWs facing the death sentence and those who continue to languish in jail, as they, together with Migrante International, trooped to the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) last November 20. The DFA official who faced them, after making them wait for almost two…