“Myu was so sorry, he had so much regret and wanted to do better and make up for his mistakes”, Mrs Sukumaran says in her letter, describing the rehabilitation programs he set up in Bali’s Kerobokan jail and the prisoners whose lives he helped turn around.
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Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, expressed concern that the inmates had not received a fair trial, and urged Indonesia to halt the executions.
The Pakistan government hopes that clemency appeal filed by Zulfiqar Ali will be considered favourably by the government of Indonesia on humanitarian grounds.
The sister of a Pakistani convicted of drug crimes has appealed the Indonesian government to spare the life o.
Human Rights Watch has called on President Joko Widodo, also known as “Jokowi”, to commute the sentences of at least 14 inmates – including a number of foreign nationals – for drug trafficking.
“The death penalty is not an effective deterrent relative to other forms of punishment nor does it protect people from drug abuse”.
“President Widodo’s era was supposed to represent a new start for human rights in Indonesia”.
The United Nations on Wednesday called on Indonesia to immediately reinstate a moratorium on the death penalty and not proceed with the executions. Community Legal Aid Institute, which is involved in some of the death row cases, has given names for four Indonesians, six Nigerians, two Zimbabweans, one Indian and one Pakistani.
According to another report from Cilacap, Indonesia, a group of drug convicts including foreigners will face the firing squad in Indonesia this week after authorities Tuesday gave notice of their executions, a diplomat said, despite protests from governments and rights groups.
“They said the Indonesian government just hate us, they want to kill us because we are black”, Mr Gunawan said.
The Indonesian Foreign Ministry, however, insisted Thursday that executions of drug smugglers would continue and asked that other countries respect its law.
The brother of Australian Andrew Chan, who was executed in April a year ago, has told Fairfax Media he has had sleepless nights ahead of the latest round of executions, expected around midnight on Friday. The drug convict believes his execution will be put on hold if both countries put all differences aside and take up the matter on embassy level. Carrying out executions will not rid Indonesia of drugs.
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The case bears remarkable similarities to that of Filipino Mary-Jane Veloso, who was due to be executed previous year, but won a surprise reprieve after her alleged human trafficker handed herself in to police in Manila just hours before Veloso was due to be killed. Indonesia has some of the harshest drug laws in the world.
