Baneer reads “mercy, mercy”.
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Speaking to reporters outside the island prison in the early hours of Friday morning, the representative from AGO is the General Criminal Attorney, Noor Rachmad, said “We do this just to implement the law and to stop drug crimes”.
“This is not the first time that Nigerians in Indonesia are at risk of being executed, Nigerians have been executed in the past for drug related offences and Amnesty International opposes the death penalty under all circumstances and we don’t think that drug related offences are serious crimes to warrant the death penalty”.
Those awaiting executions include three Indonesians, a Pakistani, an Indian, one Zimbabwean and four other Nigerians.
At least two prisoners among the group of 10, a Pakistani national and an Indonesian woman have applied for presidential clemency, their representatives said.
Some distressed relatives protested their loved ones’ innocence, while 10 women’s rights activists rallying in support of Utami were detained.
Attorney-General Muhammad Prasetyo told a news conference that the severity of the drug crimes and exhaustion of all appeals was a consideration in the execution of the four men.
“The government does not respect the ongoing legal process on Jeff’s case”.
Groups of protesters staged demonstrations as they watched the bodies of those executed being transported for burial.
“The capital punishment is not against the regime of worldwide law”.
In Cilacap, the sister-in-law of Michael Titus, a Nigerian sentenced to death, said his Indonesian wife was returning to Indonesia from West Africa in the hope she would be able to see him a final time.
The Ambassador said it was a moment of satisfaction that the collective efforts of the Prime Minister’s Office, the Foreign Office and the Pakistan Embassy in Jakarta had yielded positive results for Zulfiqar Ali who had not been given a chance of fair trial. Indonesia executed four people convicted of drug crimes on Friday despi…
Australian drug convicts Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran were executed after numerous appeals from supporters who claimed they were reformed.
This was the third set of executions under President Joko Widodo, who was elected in 2014. His 2-year-old administration will have executed more people than were executed in the previous decade. He was given the death sentence even though prosecutors had recommended a 20-year jail term for Singh, who is also known as Vishal and belongs to Jalandhar in Punjab.
“The increasing use of the death penalty in Indonesia is terribly worrying and I urge the government to immediately end this practice, which is unjust and incompatible with human rights”, said Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, in a statement.
But Indonesia is showing no signs of backing down, saying the death penalty remained a valid legal avenue within the country trying to fight drugs.
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The government of Jokowi’s predecessor did not carry out executions between 2009 and 2012, but resumed them in 2013.
