Jailed Filipino migrant worker Rodelio Lanuza is a step closer to freedom as the Philippine government has deposited to the Saudi court its 700,000 Saudi Riyals or P7.6 million contribution to the blood money for his release, Vice President Jejomar Binay said.
The Philippines has again appealed to Saudi Arabia to extend the deadline for the payment of blood money by jailed overseas Filipino worker (OFW) Joselito Zapanta so he could escape the death penalty, Vice President Jejomar Binay said on Monday.
Vice President Jejomar Binay and Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario on Friday expressed the Philippine government’s gratitude to Saudi King Abdullah for donating the P24.9-million balance for the “blood money” needed for the release of Filipino death convict Rodelio “Dondon” Lanuza.
The Philippine government on Friday thanked the Saudi government for its decision to shoulder nearly P25 million in blood money for jailed Filipino worker Rodelio Celestino Lanuza, saying the act affirmed the strong ties between the two countries.
An overseas Filipino worker who has languished on death row in Saudi Arabia for more than a decade has been saved from execution with the Saudi government’s shouldering nearly P25 million in blood money for his victim’s family, the kingdom’s embassy in Manila said Thursday.
Vice President Jejomar Binay is appealing to people to help the government raise P44 million to help save the life of a Filipino worker who needs the amount to pay the family of a Sudanese national he had killed in 2009.
At the request of a father who wants his condemned son to be spared from death in a Saudi Arabian prison, Gov. Lilia Pineda is leading a campaign to pool donations to raise part of the P44-million blood money demanded by a Sudanese family for the death of their kin.
The government of Saudi Arabia has stayed the execution of Filipino migrant worker Joselito Zapanta by four more months, giving his family more time to raise blood money to settle with the family of his Sudanese victim.
Vice President Jejomar Binay on Tuesday asked for prayers for an overseas Filipino worker sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia for murder and robbery, after the OFW’s family failed to meet Wednesday’s deadline to pay P55 million in blood money to the victim’s heirs.
The government is working overtime to raise P55 million in blood money in order to save the life of a Filipino overseas worker convicted for the murder with robbery of a Sudanese national in Saudi Arabia.
Philippine officials in Riyadh on Wednesday clarified that overseas Filipino worker Rodelio “Dondon” Lanuza, who has been languishing for 11 years on death row in Saudi Arabia, is not yet spared from the death penalty.
Fate and luck may finally be working in favor of overseas Filipino worker Rodelio “Dondon” Lanuza, who has been on death row in Damman, Saudi Arabia for the past 11 years. His tireless internet campaign for justice and assistance has caught the attention of a Filipino-American businesswoman and philanthropist, Loida Nicolas Lewis—as well as a Saudi prince whose identity remains a mystery.
