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.
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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.
Family members of Mr Michael Titus Igweh, a Nigerian prisoner, also protested his looming execution, saying his case was still under review.
Indonesia has some of the toughest anti-drugs laws in the world.
Christa said that had she been informed of the court’s decision earlier, she would have applied for presidential clemency.
Authorities did not give a reason for the reprieve given to the other 10 inmates, but island was hit by a major storm as the other executions took place.
The lawyer of Pakistani prisoner Zulfikar Ali told Al Jazeera’s Step Vaessen that his client was not among those who had reportedly been executed.
“This can not happen. I am very concerned”. Ali’s family carried out a protest in Lahore on Wednesday against his imminent execution.
Amnesty International said some of the cases were emblematic of systemic flaws within the Indonesian justice system.
Indonesian officials have said all measures will be taken to prevent the drama surrounding the executions in April previous year.
The isolation cells at Batu prison, Nusakambangan. Even when it comes to murder, a recent study concluded that the death penalty does not deter the crime “to a marginally greater extent than does the threat and application of the supposedly lesser punishment of life imprisonment”.
Rights groups in Pakistan claim Ali was beaten into confessing.
Police oversee preparations for the executions in Cilacap, the closest town to Nusakambangan where the prisoners will be shot. He said that he has also received some SMS about the execution of the Pakistani national.
Pakistani Ambassador Aqil Naseem said the government of Pakistan respected the Indonesian legal system, but believed that the legal process against Ali was flawed.
The government insists they are a necessary deterrent in the war against drugs, with officials regularly citing statistics that 40 to 50 people die from drug-related causes a day.
The planned execution of 55-year-old Pakistani businessman Zulfiqar Ali has raised controversy as he was taken from a local hospital, where he had been treated for two months due to complications from various illnesses.
Last year, in a final, desperate bid to save her life, she assembled a new legal team of “competent Indonesian lawyers and experts”.
“This is just insane, it should be tomorrow”, said the director of the Community Legal Aid Institute, Ricky Gunawan, who was filing clemency pleas on behalf of Indonesian woman Merri Utami and Nigerian Humphrey Jefferson Ejike Eleweke.
Four of these had been arrested on a fake passport, causing confusion in Indonesia as to their true nationality.
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A worker hold a cross with name of death row prisoner Nigerians Seck Osmanu written on it at a funeral home in Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday, July 29, 2016.
