Drug trafficker Mary Jane Veloso has been released from prison.
A woman who spent almost 15 years on death row in Indonesia for drug trafficking as part of the Bali Nine has walked free from jail after receiving a presidential pardon.
Veloso was arrested and sentenced to death by an Indonesian court in 2010 after carrying a suitcase lined with 2.6 kilograms of heroin.
Chan and Sukumaran died in 2015 after being found guilty of trying to smuggle more than eight kilograms of heroin into Australia.
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Drug trafficker Mary Jane Veloso has been released from prison.
Veloso says she is looking forward to being reunited with her sons.
A woman who spent almost 15 years on death row in Indonesia for drug trafficking as part of the Bali Nine has walked free from jail after receiving a presidential pardon.
Mary Jane Veloso smiled as she left her prison cell in the Philippines on Friday, local time, holding the document signed by President Ferdinand Marcos granting her "absolute pardon".
Veloso was arrested and sentenced to death by an Indonesian court in 2010 after carrying a suitcase lined with 2.6 kilograms of heroin.
Nine years later Jakarta handed her back over to authorities in her homeland under a "practical arrangement", allowing her to serve the rest of her sentence at a prison in the Philippines.
Chan and Sukumaran died in 2015 after being found guilty of trying to smuggle more than eight kilograms of heroin into Australia.
Unlike Veloso, they were refused clemency by Indonesian president Joko Widodo as part of a stance on the death penalty for convicted drug criminals.
Then Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Australia regretted the "cruel" and "unnecessary" executions described it as a "dark moment" in the relationship between Australia and Indonesia.
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