The Philippines’ Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) will appeal the recent death sentence handed down to two Filipinos who were convicted of smuggling illegal drugs into Vietnam, according to ABS-CBNnews.
>> Vietnam sentences two Filippino drug smugglers to death
The DFA said it will appeal the death sentence and provide further legal assistance to the two Filipinos, ABS-CBNnews added.
Figures released by the DFA show that at present there are 81 Filipinos on death row, 45 of them drug related cases, around the world. There are 805 drug trafficking cases involving Filipinos across the globe.
Previous reports by AFP showed that Emmanuel Sillo Camacho, 39, was found guilty at a trial in Hanoi last Thursday of carrying 18 packages of cocaine – totaling some 3.4 kilograms – to Vietnam from Brazil.
He was caught with the drugs at the Vietnamese capital’s Noi Bai airport in 2013.
Donna Buenagua Mazon, also 39, was sentenced to death by a court in southern Ho Chi Minh City earlier this month, after being caught with 1.5 kilograms of cocaine in December 2013.
Vietnam maintains some of the world's toughest anti-drug laws. Anyone found guilty of possessing more than 600 grams (20 ounces) of heroin, or more than 20 kilos of opium, can face death.
Dozens of foreigners have been sentenced over drug offences, although it has been decades since a foreign national was executed in the Southeast Asian country. With ABS-CBNnews
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