A United Arab Emirates (UAE) court has acquitted a Filipino worker who was sentenced to death for stabbing her employer last May, an official of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said.

Raul Dado, executive director of the office of migrant workers affairs of the DFA, said early Tuesday, however, that Jennifer Dalquez could not come home yet because she has to serve out a five-year jail term.

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