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| Filipino Workers Jailed Beyond Sentence, to Be Freed |
| 2007-01-25 |
| JEDDAH, 25 January 2007 — After spending up to four years in a local jail, three out of four Filipino workers charged and convicted in 2002 are set to be released. They were charged with stealing equipment from their employer and sentenced to a year and also a year and half in prison — not four. Their employer has dropped the charges and a judge signed their release papers on Sunday, according to copies of official documents obtained by Arab News. Three of the workers (Manuel Fernandez, Julian Camat and Milo Ramos) were sentenced to one year and a half and the fourth (Napoleon Abdullah Fabregas), a Muslim convert, was sentenced to only one year in jail despite the fact that all four were charged with the same crime. Fernandez was released last month after signing a waiver of claims from the company. The four workers were charged with “stealing laptops” worth over SR100,000 in December of 2002 while they were working as cargo handlers at King Abdul Aziz International Airport in Jeddah. Despite completing their sentence three and a half years ago, they still remain in Briman Prison. According to sources, Gabriel Ocampo, another Filipino who was thought to have implicated the four, disappeared when police belatedly went looking for him. |
| Posted by:Classer |