Filipinos in Japan Appeal to Kuwaiti Embassy for Mercy

October 31, 2007


H.E. GHASSAN AL^SAWAWI
Ambassador
Embassy of the State of Kuwait
4-13-12 Mita, Minato-ku
Tokyo 108-0073

Your Excellency,

Greetings of Peace and Goodwill!

We are members of the Filipino community in Japan belonging to The Philippine Women’s League of Japan (PWLJ), the Filipina Circle for Advancement and Progress (FICAP), the Kalipunan ng mga Filipinong Nagkakaisa (KAFIN) and Migrante-Japan. We are writing Your Excellency to inform that we plan to visit your embassy to request for a dialogue on November 13, 2007 (Tuesday) between 4:00 o’clock and 5:00 o’clock in the afternoon, and to hand in a letter of appeal addressed to His Highness Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber al-Sabah, The Amir of the State of Kuwait in connection with the case of Marilou Ranario, a Filipina domestic worker whose death sentence by hanging is now on final appeal with the Kuwait’s Court of Cassation.

As migrant Filipinos we are concerned about the fate of Marilou Ranario and the family she left behind. We wish to make an appeal to spare her life for the sake of her family and loved ones who are now anxiously waiting for the result of the final appeal.

Please be assured that we do not wish to make any unnecessary trouble, and that our only intension in coming to your embassy is to deliver our message to the Kuwaiti government, to save the life of Marilou Ranario on humanitarian considerations, and to ease the pains and sufferings of her family most especially her two young children back in the Philippines.

Thank you very much and we pray for your kind understanding.


Sincerely yours,


FIILIPINO COMMUNITY IN JAPAN
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