Indonesia is nearly ready to execute by firing squad nine foreigners and an Indonesian condemned for drug smuggling. According to ABC news,they are four Australians Andrew Chan, 31, and Myuran Sukumaran, 33, who are currently in a Bali jail, Raheem Agbaje Salami, 45, a Nigerian national who was born in Cordova, Spain, and 30-year-old Filipina Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso. The four convicts being transferred, two Nigerians and four men from Brazil, France, Ghana and Indonesia will be executed simultaneously by a firing squad on the prison island off Indonesia’s main island of Java. The Nigerians face execution after their clemency requests were rejected by Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo last month, said Attorney General’s office spokesman Tony Spontana. They are Silvester Obiekwe Nwolise, 39, and Okwudili Oyatanze, 40, whose clemency was rejected after he was caught running drug transactions from behind bars. Jokowi has received phone calls from some foreign leaders asking that the executions be canceled, but rejected their requests. He vowed not to grant mercy to drug offenders because Indonesia is suffering a “drug emergency.” Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has called on Indonesia to “reciprocate” for Australia’s $1 billion aid package after the 2004 tsunami by sparing his two countrymen. Indonesia executed six drug convicts including foreigners in January. More than 130 people are on death row, including 57 drug convicts.
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Posted: at 3-03-2015 03:42 PM (10 years ago) | Gistmaniac
fearlesspaul at 3-03-2015 03:47 PM (10 years ago) (m)
Good. I support the president because they knew the death penalty law but still took the risk.
Posted: at 3-03-2015 03:47 PM (10 years ago) | Upcoming
Drug users and drug seller, should not be executed for any reason. is their choice of life, they did not force any body to use drug. some years back people where executed for marijuana but today the some government that executed people for marijuana offences is legalizing it. some day we will look back to this days of execution and bow down in shame. time shall come and is not far away.
Posted: at 3-03-2015 04:25 PM (10 years ago) | Upcoming
emmanuelokek at 3-03-2015 07:14 PM (10 years ago) (m)
Don't think it will be a big task 4 dem cos they know d penalty in Indonesia b4 taking d risk .I will only pity some dat falls vitamin unknowingly, R.l.P brodas
Posted: at 3-03-2015 07:14 PM (10 years ago) | Upcoming
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