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DFA: 81 Filipinos face death penalty charges 

The Department of Foreign Affairs reported that around 81 Filipinos are facing death penalty charges abroad.

“The DFA continues to work hard and exhausts all diplomatic channels available to ensure that no death penalty sentence is executed against any of our kababayans,” the DFA said in a statement sent to reporters.

The DFA said that they are closely looking at these cases to protect the welfare of Filipinos abroad. 

One death penalty case was recently acquitted in Saudi Arabia and another one in the United Arab Emirates. Both Filipinos have been convicted of murder. 

The DFA said that two Filipinos were also convicted in Saudi Arabia in 2022 but their sentence was commuted to 9 years in prison. 

Overall the DFA reported that 135 acquittals through its legal assistance program in 2022. 

“The 2022 figures should be appreciated vis à vis the fact that, for the first half of 2022, most countries in Asia and the Middle East were still practicing strict COVID-19 control protocols,” the DFA said.  

“Most of the acquittals involved retaliatory cases filed against household service workers in the Middle East for theft, absconding and breach of trust,” the DFA added. 

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