(UPDATE) CAMBODIA has pardoned and sent home 13 Filipino women who were jailed over a scheme to become surrogate mothers, an outlawed practice in that country, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said on Sunday.

They were among 24 foreign women detained by Cambodian police in September, and convicted and sentenced to four years in prison on Dec. 2 for attempted cross-border human trafficking.

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