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View all search resultsAGO delays execution of Australian inmates on death row
The Attorney Generalâs Office (AGO) has decided to delay the execution of two Australian inmates, Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan, who are on death row for drug trafficking charges
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he Attorney General's Office (AGO) has decided to delay the execution of two Australian inmates, Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan, who are on death row for drug trafficking charges.
'The delay is our response to requests submitted by the Australian government and the inmates' families, who have asked for more time to meet them,' AGO spokesperson Tony Tribagus Spontana said as quoted by Antara in Jakarta on Tuesday.
Chan and Sukumaran are among 11 death row inmates set to be executed after President Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo refused to grant clemency.
The five other foreign nationals to be executed for drug smuggling charges are Martin Anderson aka Belo (Ghanaian), Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso (Filipina), Raheem Agbaje Salami (Nigerian), Rodrigo Gularte (Brazilian) and Serge Areski Atlaoui (French).
The four remaining convicts are Indonesians. They are Harun bin Ajis, Iyen bin Azwar and Sargawi alias Ali bin Sanusi ' all convicted of attempted murder ' and Zainal Abidin, a drug-trafficking convict.
Tony went on to say that the AGO had also postponed moving the death row inmates imprisoned in five different locations in Indonesia to the Nusakambangan prison island in Cilacap, Central Java, originally scheduled for later this week. The convicts are held in prisons in Banten, Kerobokan (Bali), Madiun (East Java), Palembang (South Sumatra), Tangerang (Banten) and Yogyakarta.
Tony explained that the AGO had received a letter from the correctional institution division at the Law and Human Rights Ministry's Central Java office requesting that the transfer of the convicts be conducted at least three days before the execution.
'The execution team has carried out a field observation at Nusakambangan and found technical obstacles that would make it difficult for us to carry out executions of the five convicts simultaneously,' Tony said.
Therefore, he added, the transfer of the death row inmates would not be conducted until isolation rooms and the execution location were ready to use.
Tony played down rumors that the government would cancel the executions. 'We are looking for the proper time for the executions,' he said, adding that the execution of the convicts would be conducted once the right time had been identified. (ebf)(+++)
