A Filipino construction worker in death row in Saudi Arabia for murder has been given a few more months to pay the 4 million riyals (about P44 million) blood money to the family of his landlord whom he killed in 2009, Malacañang said Thursday.
Overseas Filipino worker Joselito Zapanta, who was scheduled for execution in Saudi Arabia , has been given a three-month reprieve by the Saudi government, Vice President Jejomar Binay announced in a press conference on Tuesday.
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Tuesday called for more help to raise the blood money needed for Joselito Zapanta, an overseas Filipino worker in Saudi Arabia, as President Benigno Aquino III has sent a letter asking for an extension of the deadline.
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.
The Philippine government is exerting all efforts to push back the deadline for the blood money payment of overseas Filipino worker Joselito Zapanta, which ends Tuesday, March 12, Vice President Jejomar Binay said on Monday.
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.
The family of overseas Filipino worker Joselito Zapanta on Wednesday reiterated its appeal for help in raising P44 million in blood money in four months so the condemned OFW can be spared from execution next year.
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.
