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Families Ask Indonesia For Clemency For Drug Prisoners by Nobody: 1:40pm On Apr 27, 2015 |
The families of foreign prisoners on death row for drug offences in Indonesia have appealed to the Indonesian president, Joko Widodo, to show mercy, days before their relatives are due to face a firing squad. On Saturday, Indonesia gave 72 hours’ notice to four Nigerians, two Australians, a Brazilian, a Ghanaian, a Filipino and an Indonesian national on death row that they are to be executed, possibly as soon as Tuesday. The attorney general’s office said notices that they would face a firing squad were delivered to the 10 inmates on the prison island of Nusakambangan, despite last-minute appeals for clemency from the governments of several of the prisoners’ countries. A temporary reprieve had been granted to the French citizen, Serge Atlaoui, a French embassy official said on Saturday. Atlaoui’s execution was delayed over an outstanding legal complaint over the procedure followed in his request for clemency. However, the Indonesian attorney general, Tony Spontana, said the Supreme Court was expected to rule on the matter on Monday. Mental illness The Brazilian family of Rodrigo Gularte pleaded for the cancellation of his execution on Sunday, saying he has been diagnosed with a mental illness by a local hospital. Gularte was sentenced to death in 2005 after being arrested for attempting to smuggle 6kg of cocaine into Indonesia. “On behalf of the family, we are asking Indonesian President Jokowi to see truly and wisely the facts and beg the president to cancel the executions,” said the family’s Indonesian lawyer, Ricky Gunawan, accompanied by Gularte’s cousin Angelita Muxfeldt. “We know the president has the right to cancel executions. We hope that Rodrigo will be treated at a mental hospital, just as the local hospital in Cilacap has recommended." www.punchng.com/news/families-ask-indonesia-for-clemency-for-drug-prisoners/ |
Re: Families Ask Indonesia For Clemency For Drug Prisoners by GboyegaD(m): 2:13pm On Apr 27, 2015 |
I feel for those involved however, the probability of Indonesia bending their rules for these guys is very low. |
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