“President Jokowi should acknowledge the death penalty’s barbarity and avoid a potential diplomatic firestorm” by sparing their lives, said Phelim Kine, deputy Asia director at Human Rights Watch, in a statement released Wednesday.
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The sister of a Pakistani convicted of drug crimes has appealed the Indon.
On Thursday, 14 coffins were seen being transported to Nusakambangan, and detik.com reported Friday that five ambulances – four of them carrying the bodies of the executed – had left the island. Indonesia rebuffed appeals fro.
In a joint statement, the UN Special Rapporteurs on extrajudicial executions, Christof Heyns; on torture, Juan E. Méndez; and on the independence of the judiciary, Mónica Pinto urged the Indonesia Government to halt executions to re-try the 14 persons in compliance with worldwide standards.
The death penalty is widely accepted by the Indonesian public, but police on Thursday had to break up a protest outside the prison by members of a migrant workers group who called for mercy for an Indonesian woman who was scheduled to be executed. He had not been able to speak with Utami since the four executions were announced and nor had her appointed spiritual adviser, a Catholic priest.
“I have only been informed of those three names”, he said. “Then apparently she is not executed”.
Human Rights Watch has called on President Joko Widodo, also known as “Jokowi”, to commute their sentences.
Last year, Indonesia executed 14 people convicted of drug crimes, mostly foreigners, sparking an global outcry.
“Such death sentences are unlawful and tantamount to an arbitrary execution as they are undertaken in contravention of Indonesia’s global human rights obligations”, the United Nations said in a statement on Thursday.
It was not immediately clear when the remaining 10 convicts will be executed, but all of them have been held in isolation cells since last weekend.
The family of Pakistani man Zulfiqar Ali ahead of the planned executions.
“The officials of Indonesia’s Foreign Office have conveyed us that Zulfiqar Ali’s execution has been stopped and he is safe”, the Ambassador told APP from Jakarta over telephone. “Therefore he should be set free”, said a 50-year-old woman while tears were rolling down from her cheeks.
Three Indonesian television networks said the executions occurred at the Nusa Kambangan prison island.
The four executed people have now been named.
“The failure to do the verification before running the story is completely unprofessional and a serious violation of the main principles of good journalism”, the Post’s chief editor Endy Bayuni said.
“This was done not in order to take lives but to stop evil intentions, and the evil act of drug trafficking”, Rachmad said.
In Ejike’s case, his legal team alleged that his execution was unjust.
The report said the official was silent on 10 others slated to be executed but were not. All the cases have gone through a long legal process including appeals, he said.
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A further 10 convicts who had been expected to be killed had a last-minute stay of execution.
