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Attorney General reported for alleged execution violations

News Desk (The Jakarta Post)
Jakarta
Thu, August 11, 2016

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Attorney General reported for alleged execution violations Attorney General M. Prasetyo speaks to journalists. (Kompas.com/Abba Gabrillin)

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ttorney General M. Prasetyo has been reported by a coalition, dubbed Remove the Death Penalty (HATI), to the Prosecutors Commission for alleged violations during a recent round of executions.

The HATI coalition, which consists of the Legal Aid Foundation (LBH), the Institute for Criminal Justice Reform (ICJR) and the University of Indonesia Law School's Indonesian Judicial Monitoring Society (Mappi), accused Prasetyo of violating two laws on clemency and notification of execution.

Afif Abdul Qoyim, a member of the coalition who was a lawyer in the legal team of one of the executed convicts, Humphrey Jefferson Ejike Eleweke, said his client had applied for clemency on July 27, prior to his execution.

"Based on the Clemency Law, the execution should not have been carried out before Jeff's clemency plea had been either accepted or rejected. However, until the very last second, the President's final decision still hadn't been received," Afif, of the LBH, said as quoted by kompas.com. By law, prosecutors must inform the convict 3x24 hours ahead of the execution, he added.

"On Tuesday July 26 at around 3 p.m., Humphrey was informed that the verdict was final and binding. [Therefore] the execution should have been carried out in the afternoon of July 29, not in the early hours of the morning," Afif said. 

He questioned the accelerated process of Eleweke's execution, adding that Prasetyo had appeared hasty in the decision to conduct the execution.  (liz/bbn)

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