“At this stage, we can only say that we are extremely disappointed with the fact that Jeff was executed”, said Raynov Tumorang by text message.
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Foreign Office Spokesman Nafees Zakaria had earlier told APP Thursday morning that Pakistan government had taken up the issue appropriately through diplomatic and political channels and would not lose hope till last moment. “Racism towards our client can be seen in the court decision”.
Amnesty International has identified what it calls “systematic flaws” in the trials of several of the death row inmates, and urged Indonesia not to proceed while appeals for clemency were pending.
“Any executions that are still to take place must be halted immediately. The injustice already done can not be reversed, but there is still hope that it won’t be compounded”, said Amnesty’s director for south-east Asia and the Pacific Rafendi Djamin.
“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”.
Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif’sefforts helped suspend the death penalty of Pakistani prisoner in Indonesia, accused for drug smuggling, Maryam Nawaz said. The Government resumed executions in March 2013, after a four-year de facto moratorium, in a decision that was heavily criticised by the global community as running counter to the worldwide trend towards the abolition of the death penalty. Authorities have labeled it a “drug emergency situation”.
In April 2015, 14 drug convicts were executed, two of them Australian citizens.
A further 10 prisoners awaiting death had their executions temporarily suspended.
That changed when Joko Widodo became president in October 2014.
“The death penalty does not deter crime”.
On Wednesday, the mother of Bali Nine ringleader Myuran Sukumaran, who was executed past year, sent a letter to Indonesian President Joko Widodo pleading with him to show mercy.
The English-language Jakarta Post newspaper apologized on its website Friday for going to print with a front-page story that said 14 people had been executed.
Indonesia ended a four-year unofficial moratorium on the death penalty in March 2013.
From Lahore, Ali’s sister Humaira Bibi on Wednesday made an emotional appeal to the Indonesian government to spare the life of her ailing brother. “I don’t know their family, friends or children”, she wrote in the letter, according to ABC News.
The Indonesian man and three Nigerians were killed by firing squad shortly after midnight local time (17:00 GMT) at the Nusakambangan prison island.
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“Their families were given until 3pm today to visit them so it is likely that the executions would be carried out tonight”.
