The Indonesian
government has carried
out executions of four
convicted drug traffickers,
Al Jazeera has learned.
The attorney general's
office had said earlier on
Thursday that 14 people,
including foreigners, would
be executed "soon".
The convicts were shot by
firing squad at the Nusa
Kambangan penal island
shortly after midnight on
Friday local time (1700 GMT
on Thursday) amid pouring
rain, according to TV
reports.
Deputy Attorney General
Noor Rachmad also
confirmed the executions
to reporters, according to
AFP news agency. But
Rachmad did not say why
the 10 other drug convicts
were not executed.
Al Jazeera's Step Vaessen,
reporting from Jakarta,
said among those who
were executed were two
Nigerian citizens, a South
African citizen and one
Indonesian.
"All the others are still
waiting their trials to be
reexamined," our
correspondent said. "It's
not very clear what
actually were the last
conclusions why these
executions didn't take
place. But the government
is saying it has something
to do with legal issues."
The lawyer of Pakistani
prisoner Zulfikar Ali earlier
told our correspondent
that his client was not
among those who had
reportedly been executed.
Al Jazeera's Vaessen said
there had been "a lot of
pressure" until the last
minute to stop the
executions.
source http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/07/reports-indonesia-executes-convicted-drug-traffickers-160728182341683.html