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Two Filipinas are facing drug trafficking charges
after being unwittingly used as drug couriers, according to the
Department of Foreign Affairs.
Philippine Consulate officials in
Hong Kong are now assisting the two Filipinas, one from Baguio City
and the other from Pozzorubio, Pangasinan. The detained Filipinas,
who refused to be named, were arrested by authorities on March 26
and 30, and are presently detained at Tai Lam Center for Women in
the New Territories.
Consular officials will be
present during the respective court appearances of the two Filipinas
later this month, to confer with their lawyers and monitor the
judicial proceedings.
Consul General Alejandrino
Vicente, however, clarified that these are the only active drug
trafficking-related cases that the consulate is presently handling.
He reiterated the warning of the
Philippine Embassy in Beijing for Filipinos not to allow themselves
to be used as “drug couriers” by unscrupulous individuals who
are working for drug trafficking syndicates.
--Katrice R. Jalbuena
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