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National scene: No executions in April: AGO
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ttorney General M. Prasetyo said on Tuesday the Attorney General's Office (AGO) would not carry out the executions of 10 death row convicts on Nusakambangan prison island near Cilacap, Central Java, this month.
'I don't think [it will take place this month]. We are still deciding on the exact date for the executions,' Prasetyo told The Jakarta Post on Tuesday.
Prasetyo said that the Jakarta State Administrative Court's (PTUN) decision on Monday to reject appeals filed by two of the 10 convicts, Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan of Australia, had given the AGO the confidence to carry out the executions.
He said that the AGO would announce the exact date of the executions after the Supreme Court had overthrown the case review appeals of two other death row convicts, Serge Areski Atlaoui of France and Martin Anderson alias Belo of Ghana.
Atlaoui is currently challenging his sentence at the Tangerang State Court, while Anderson has registered a review petition with the South Jakarta District Court.
The two courts are expected to send the trial documents of the two convicts to the Supreme Court, which will decide whether to reject or accept their case review petitions.
The four drug convicts are among a group of 10 people slated for simultaneous execution on Nusakambangan, where the AGO conducted a first batch of executions ' of six local and foreign drug convicts ' in January.
