Pakistan on Monday urged Indonesia to stay Ali’s execution, citing concern that his 2005 trial had been unfair. “Jokowi should also ban the death penalty for drug crimes, which worldwide law prohibits, rather than giving the go-ahead for more multiple executions”. The sister of a Pakistani man.
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The family and relatives of Ali carried out a protest Wednesday night at mall road Lahore in front of Punjab Assembly. The sister of a Pakistani convicted of drug crimes has appealed the In.
The attorney general’s office had said late Wednesday that 14 convicts would be executed “soon”.
“Under worldwide law, if the death penalty is to be used at all, it should only be imposed for the ‘most serious crimes, ‘ namely those involving intentional killing”, said Mr Ban in a statement issued by his office.
On those who have been given a temporary reprieve, Rachmad said the government hadn’t decided when the other executions will take place.
However preparations for the executions are intensifying at Cilacap in Central Java, the gateway to the penal island of Nusakambangan, where the prisoners will be shot dead by special police known as BRIMOB around midnight on Friday.
Fourteen death row prisoners from Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Pakistan, India and Indonesia were on Tuesday told they had 72 hours to live, according to the Community Legal Aid Institute. Previously, the attorney-general’s office has said it has budgeted funds for up to 16 executions this year.
“Authorities say they will execute him”.
Kamara also stated that “Indonesian President Joko Widodo will be putting his government on the wrong side of history if he proceeds with a fresh round of executions”.
Indonesia’s prosecutors have always stressed that only death row convicts who have exhausted all legal avenues are put on the execution list.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has called on Indonesia to end the “unjust” use of the death penalty and the European Union has also urged a halt.
Lawyers and rights groups have raised serious doubts about the legitimacy of the convictions in several drug cases, including that of Pakistani Zulfikar Ali, Indonesian Merri Utami and Nigerian Humphrey Jefferson.
Rights activists and governments have again called on Indonesia to abolish the death penalty.
Rights group the Justice Project Pakistan say that the 52-year-old father of six was “tortured relentlessly” during a three-day interrogation in a house by police, after which he required surgery.
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He was arrested in November 2004 in connection with a 300-gram heroine case in Jakarta, Dawn online added.
