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Indonesia to Execute 5 Foreign Drug Traffickers This Weekend

By Jeralyn, Section Death Penalty
Posted on Fri Jan 16, 2015 at 01:44:41 PM EST
Tags: Boycott Bali, Indonesia, execution (all tags)
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Indonesia will kick off its execution binge of 20 drug traffickers with the first six this weekend. Five are from foreign countries.

Attorney General HM Prasetyo confirmed on Thursday that five people — four men and a woman — would face the firing squad on Nusakambangan Island, Central Java, while one woman would face the firing squad in Boyolali, Central Java.

“We have prepared everything; the firing squad, clergymen and doctors. The executions will be done simultaneously, not one by one,” he said.

The Netherlands, Brazil and the European Union have asked Indonesia to call off the killings. It says it won't. Amnesty International issued this protest. [More...]

The two Bali Nine defendants, Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan will be executed together as soon as Chan's clemency bid is denied.

Those to be executed this weekend:

One Indonesian, Rani Andriani, alias Melisa Aprilia, and five foreign nationals: Daniel Enemuo (Nigerian), Ang Kim Soei (Dutch), Tran Thi Bich Hanh (Vietnamese), Namaona Denis (Nigerian) and Marco Archer Cardoso Moreira (Brazilian).

Security has been stepped up at Nusa Kambangan, in Central Java, where five of the executions will take place.

Under international law, drug-related crimes do not meet the threshold of the “most serious crimes” for which the death penalty can be imposed. Indonesia deserves the world's revulsion.

Please do not give your tourist dollars to a country that violates human rights and international law by killing drug traffickers. There are beautiful beaches all over the world. If you want to vacation in the Pacific, go to the Seychelles, Mauritius, or Fiji, none of which execute drug traffickers.

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    Indonesia to Execute 5 Foreign Drug Traffickers This Weekend | 4 comments (4 topical)

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    I just do not understand this stance of yours. (5.00 / 1) (#4)
    by vml68 on Sat Jan 17, 2015 at 01:52:59 PM EST
    Please do not give your tourist dollars to a country that violates human rights and international law by killing drug traffickers.

    Isn't it a bit hypocritical to be singling out Bali when we live in a country that also violates human rights? See - Torture, Guantanamo.

    Btw, most Muslim countries impose the death penalty for drug trafficking and that includes all our allies in the Middle-East.

    Absent. (none / 0) (#1)
    by lentinel on Fri Jan 16, 2015 at 04:00:41 PM EST
    The Netherlands, Brazil and the European Union have asked Indonesia to call off the killings...

    but not the United States.

    actually that makes sense (none / 0) (#2)
    by nyjets on Fri Jan 16, 2015 at 04:10:43 PM EST
    The fact of the matter is that it is not the business of the US to interfere. No US citizens are involved. I would prefer it if the US government did not meddle in the affairs of other countries UNLESS UNited States citizens are involved.
    THe US would be in MUCH better position if we did not meddle in the affairs of other nations.


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    those are the countries (none / 0) (#3)
    by Jeralyn on Fri Jan 16, 2015 at 04:23:27 PM EST
    whose citizens are being executed. No one from the U.S. is being executed this weekend.

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