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"Bali Nine" duo and seven other drug offenders about to be executed in Indonesia
#21608334 - 04/28/15 09:35 AM (8 years, 10 months ago) |
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http://www.news.com.au/world/asia/the-executions-of-bali-nine-duo-andrew-chan-and-myuran-sukumaran/story-fnh81fz8-1227325701195
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INDONESIA has confirmed for the first time that the executions of Andrew Chan and Myuren Sukumaran will happen overnight.
Indonesia’s Attorney General HM Prasetyo said that the executions of Chan, Sukumaran and seven other prisoners will take place after midnight on Nusakambangan Island.
This is the first time the government has confirmed the executions, after days of speculation.
Chan and Sukumaran have however been allowed a religious adviser of their choosing after an initial denial.
Authorities have now agreed that two Australian ministers will be allowed to accompany the men in their final hours.
It is not clear what time the two ministers — David Soper and Christie Buckingham — will be asked to leave Nusakambangan before the executions but they will not be with them in their final moments as they are strapped to wooden planks and shot. Two Indonesian pastors have been appointed to that role.
Sukumaran’s Australian lawyer Julian McMahon and Australia’s consul-general to Bali Majell Hind have travelled over to Nusakambangan, ahead of the executions.
A new convoy of police and military cars also arrived at the port at Cilacap.
Australian and French governments issued a joint statement with the European Union appealing for Indonesian President Joko Widodo to halt the planned execution.
The statement said the executions would not “give deterrent effect to drug trafficking” and that “to execute these prisoners now will not achieve anything”.
“It is our hope that Indonesia can show forgiveness to ten detainees. Forgiveness and rehabilitation are fundamental to the Indonesian judicial system as well as in our system,” it said.
Screams could be heard inside the port building at Cilacap, as the families of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran prepared to cross to the prison island to say their last goodbyes to the forsaken men.
The Bali Nine ringleaders and seven others are to be executed by firing squads just after the stroke of midnight (3am AEST). Indonesian President Joko Widodo has coldly turned his back on the pleas of the international community to spare them.
Nine cheap and badly made silk-lined coffins — each valued at around $100 — passed in an ambulance onto a ferry and over to the prison island of Nusakambangan, confirming the mass execution was in its final planning stages. One of them had been commissioned extra large for Sukumaran.
For much of Tuesday, Chan, 31, and Sukumaran, 34, were denied the right to spend their final hours with their trusted hand-picked religious advisers from Australia — and which Indonesia had promised could be with them.
It threatened to be another humiliation in what has been a disgraceful episode from the time the pair were shifted from Kerobokan jail in Bali, in March, under armed fighter jet escort, to their final destination in south Java.
Australian leaders, lawyers and members of the public have rallied around Chan and Sukumaran in the last months, contradicting the often-ventilated social media claim that Australians cared little for them because neither man was caucasian.
Chan’s new bride, Febyanti, appeared stricken as she went to say goodbye to the man she married inside Nusakambangan on Monday night.
Sukumaran’s mother Raji sobbed as she struggled to walk. His sister Brintha wailed and collapsed as she made her way to the port gate.
The families were forced by heavy-handed security forces to get out of their car 100m from the port office, manhandled and jostled through a throng of security and media, as three police guard dogs jumped and snapped at them.
Indonesia’s Judicial Commission, which was tasked with investigating claims that sentencing judges had in 2006 sought $130,000 in bribes to guarantee the men would receive life, rather than death, sentences, claimed there was no evidence of corruption. The Judicial Commission said it had examined the allegations in a professional, careful way.
They said the commission had no authority to halt the executions and asked all parties to respect the legal process of Indonesia. None of the people who have provided statements to the commission have been interviewed or contacted.
Julian McMahon, the pair’s Australian lawyer, said: “To my knowledge I am unaware of the Judicial Commission speaking to any of the witnesses who provided statements. “I do not understand how anybody could say that the investigation has been undertaken if the witnesses have not been spoken to.”
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, who has been barely able to conceal her anger at the executions, said she had taken advice that nothing would be gained by a last-minute dash to Jakarta.
“Clearly, if travelling to Indonesia would make a difference, we would have gone there,” Ms Bishop said.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott was in transit back to Australia from Europe as the men’s last hours counted down.
President Widodo spent the day in his Jakarta palace and made no public appearance or statement.
The Abbott Government’s response to the executions will not be known until they are confirmed dead.
Indonesia watcher Dave McRae, told News Corp he believed it would be appropriate for the federal government to initiate some limited form if suspension of relations, with the aim of getting Indonesia to change its death-penalty policy.
“This may not be the last time an Australian faces the death penalty in Indonesia,” he said.
However, Indonesia would seize on this and point out that Australia does not impose sanctions on other death-penalty countries, including the US.
Chan and Sukumaran are set to each face a 12-man firing squad — and Sukumaran told friends he planned to reject the offer of a hood and look his killers in the eyes. Seven others, from Nigeria, Brazil, the Philippines and Indonesia, were to be shot alongside them.
Their chest wounds from 5.56mm bullets would then be stitched shut by medical officers as they lay slumped on the killing field and previous in previous executions it has taken prisoners six to seven minutes to die after being shot.
They are then to be carried a short distance where their bodies would be cleansed of blood and placed in the coffins.
Some of the victims who have little family or consular support, such as the Nigerians, will likely be buried on the island. Others, such as Brazilian Rodrigo Gularte, may be cremated in the nearby town of Purwokerto because of the problems of transporting a body back to his country.
The bodies of Chan and Sukumaran are expected to be driven directly to Jakarta, 10 hours to the north, most likely to the police forensic centre on the southern outskirts of the city.
They will then be transferred to proper caskets for repatriation to Australia.
Hundreds gathered across Australia overnight, lighting candles and holding flowers in a final call for mercy for the Bali Nine ringleaders.
“These boys have reformed,” Sukumaran’s cousin Andrew Rajeevan said on Tuesday evening. “They have been rehabilitated.”
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Re: "Bali Nine" duo and seven other drug offenders about to be executed in Indonesia [Re: Morningrise]
#21608378 - 04/28/15 09:49 AM (8 years, 10 months ago) |
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what were the exact charges?.. all i kept reading was shit about their executions, i mean, it was pretty detailed..
anyway no drug charge deserves the death penalty. these people send drug offenders to their death while they themselves commit the murders and no one bats an eye. i really hope something is done, i know it seems impossible right now but i mean anything can happen..
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Re: "Bali Nine" duo and seven other drug offenders about to be executed in Indonesia [Re: zZZz]
#21608417 - 04/28/15 10:05 AM (8 years, 10 months ago) |
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Mostly heroin smuggling, although one guy is on there for being the ringleader of a plan to sell marijuana, and one guy for possession of less than 2 ounces of heroin.
Here's a full list with details: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/29/bali-nine-who-are-the-nine-people-being-executed-by-indonesia
Edited by Morningrise (04/28/15 10:15 AM)
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Re: "Bali Nine" duo and seven other drug offenders about to be executed in Indonesia [Re: Morningrise]
#21608442 - 04/28/15 10:14 AM (8 years, 10 months ago) |
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thanks
yea, it's a fucked up situation..
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Re: "Bali Nine" duo and seven other drug offenders about to be executed in Indonesia [Re: zZZz]
#21609430 - 04/28/15 02:38 PM (8 years, 10 months ago) |
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Executions have been carried out, eight of the nine were executed.
The Filipino woman, Mary Jane Veloso, was given a reprieve at the last minute because the woman who supposedly set her up turned herself in. Hopefully this gets her (Veloso) off of death row and eventually released.
Edited by Morningrise (04/28/15 02:41 PM)
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Re: "Bali Nine" duo and seven other drug offenders about to be executed in Indonesia [Re: Morningrise] 1
#21609498 - 04/28/15 02:52 PM (8 years, 10 months ago) |
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Fuck Indonesia
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Re: "Bali Nine" duo and seven other drug offenders about to be executed in Indonesia [Re: Morningrise]
#21611176 - 04/28/15 09:53 PM (8 years, 10 months ago) |
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Wow.. just wow..
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Magicman69
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Re: "Bali Nine" duo and seven other drug offenders about to be executed in Indonesia [Re: zZZz]
#21613679 - 04/29/15 03:17 PM (8 years, 10 months ago) |
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And we think our drug laws are bad
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