Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, December 6) — The Philippine Consulate in Guangzhou is working to send home the cremated remains of two Filipino nationals executed in China for drug trafficking.
\”It hopes to bring their cremains by end of week,\” Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) spokesperson Teresita Daza said on Wednesday.
The Filipinos were executed on Nov. 24, 10 years after their arrest, the DFA disclosed on Dec. 2.
The agency said it provided all possible assistance to the Filipinos from the time they were arrested up to their appeal before the High Court of the lower court’s judgment of conviction in 2018.
The Philippine government exhausted all measures available to appeal to China to commute their sentences to life imprisonment on humanitarian grounds, the DFA said.
An analyst previously said China might have disregarded the appeal for the two Filipinos due to the Philippines’ tougher stand on the maritime dispute in the West Philippine Sea.
