UAE President Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan

UAE: 2 OF 3 PARDONED FILIPINOS SAVED FROM DEATH ROW

June 27, 2023:

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has pardoned three Filipino convicts — two of them on death row for drug trafficking and one with a 15-year sentence for slander, the Palace disclosed on June 23, 2023.
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. requested humanitarian pardon for the three in two separate letters to UAE President Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, according to a Malacañang statement.
“I am pleased to inform you that the appeal of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. for three Filipinos, two of which are sentenced to death because of drug trafficking and one sentenced for 15 years for the crime of slander, has been granted for humanitarian pardon by our President,” UAE Ambassador to the Philippines Mohamed Obaid Salem Alqataam Alzaabi said.
The Sheikh noted the valuable contribution of some 600,000 Filipinos working in the Arab nation.
Marcos, meanwhile, thanked his UAE counterpart for the decision.
“That’s the least we can do," Marcos told the Sheikh. "Then the usual things about having stronger relations and I said my part about the very good treatment of Filipino nationals in UAE.”