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veggie

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Indonesia speeds up drug executions
#8565970 - 06/26/08 09:33 AM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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Indonesia speeds up drug executions June 26, 2008 - news.com.au
INDONESIA says it will speed up the execution process for drug traffickers.
As authorities prepared for the executions tonight of two Nigerian heroin smugglers, Attorney General Hendarman Supandji said other drug offenders on death row could expect their cases to be expedited.
"They are all still in the (legal) process and will be accelerated according to existing regulations," the Antara news agency quoted him as saying today.
The head of Indonesia's anti-drugs body also said executions must take place more quickly to deter traffickers.
"To give them a lesson, drug traffickers must be executed immediately," Police chief and National Anti-Narcotic Body chairman General Sutanto said.
"With a quick trial and execution process it will give a deterrent effect to the perpetrators, and perpetrators to be."
The comments are a blow for the three Australians on death row over the failed Bali Nine plot to smuggle more than 8kg of heroin to Australia in 2005.
So too are the planned executions tonight of the two Nigerians.
They will be the first drug offenders put to death in Indonesia since 2004, and the first since the Bali Nine were arrested.
"The sentences are a grim reminder of how serious ... the issue of the death penalty is," said Darwin-based lawyer Colin MacDonald QC, who represents Bali Nine death row inmate Scott Rush.
Rush, who was a drug mule in the Bali Nine plot, and ringleaders Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran failed in a legal challenge to Indonesia's harsh drug laws last year.
They still have the option of seeking a judicial review of their death sentences, and a clemency appeal to the president.
MacDonald said he was working hard to ensure Rush escaped the firing squad.
"No doubt we will discuss this development with Scott," he said, but added he did not expect his client to be informed of the Nigerians' executions until next week, when his parents and Australian legal team are due to visit.
"He has support. He will have his mother and father there, but he will also have my assurances that we, his legal team, will be doing everything we can to advance his very strong judicial review application.
"He can also take heart that the Australian government will do all that it can to make representations for him and all the other Australian citizens affected."
Officials said the two Nigerians had been moved to a special cell at their prison on Nusakambangan Island, off Central Java, ahead of their executions by firing squad tonight.
Hansen Anthony Nwaolisa, 40, was sentenced to die for trafficking 600g heroin in 43 capsules which he had swallowed in Pakistan before arriving in Jakarta airport in January 2001.
Okoye was caught carrying 3.8kg of heroin in the lining of two pieces of luggage at Jakarta airport, after arriving from India, also in January 2001. He told police he was supposed to pass the goods onto an Australian known only as "Ron" in Jakarta.
Both men were was sentenced to death in mid-2001, with their final appeals for clemency rejected in July 2004.
Amnesty International said the men should be spared.
"Experts in international law, including the top UN officials, have confirmed that applying the death penalty for drug-related offences is a breach of international law," a spokesperson said.
The other six members of the Bali Nine are serving long sentences, including some life terms.
Six of the nine were originally sentenced to death, but three – Matthew Norman, Si Yi Chen and Tan Duc Thanh Nguyen – had their sentences commuted to life in March following a successful judicial review.
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ElectricLand
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Re: Indonesia speeds up drug executions [Re: veggie]
#8566197 - 06/26/08 10:57 AM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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"To give them a lesson, drug traffickers must be executed immediately," Police chief and National Anti-Narcotic Body chairman General Sutanto said.
Fucking ignorant piece of shit. This is disgusting, killing people for transporting drugs.
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Re: Indonesia speeds up drug executions [Re: ElectricLand]
#8566878 - 06/26/08 01:44 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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"To give them a lesson, drug traffickers must be executed immediately," Police chief and National Anti-Narcotic Body chairman General Sutanto said.
Not only disgusting, but what exactly is the executed supposed to learn? I already know the message this will send to drug traffickers who are still alive: If you're getting busted for drugs, kill the fucking cops because they WILL kill you if you surrender. All they have done is make it clear that in Indonesia, It's kill or be killed when it comes to drugs.
Yea, I can see how well this is going to work out when people with drugs start shooting first, asking why they were pulled over later.
Fuck that ridiculous bullshit.
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