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Foreign inmates in Bali granted remissions

News Desk (The Jakarta Post)
Jakarta
Tue, August 16, 2016 Published on Aug. 16, 2016 Published on 2016-08-16T16:05:40+07:00

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Foreign inmates in Bali granted remissions A number of police personnel are on guard in front of Kerobokan prison in Bali to secure the transfer of 63 prisoners to Madiun prison in East Java. (thejakartapost.com/Zul Trio Anggono)

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t least 22 foreign inmates serving sentences at several penitentiaries in Bali will enjoy special remissions in celebration of Indonesia’s 71st independence day, which will fall on Wednesday.

"Most of them are drug-related convicts,” Sulistiono, the head of the Bali branch of the Law and Human Rights Ministry, said as quoted by Antara news agency in Denpasar on Tuesday.

Sulistiono did not name names but revealed that those set to receive remissions comprised two US inmates, four Australians, two Dutch nationals, one Briton, one German, one Italian, one Russian, one Nigerian, three Thais, two Malaysians, three Filipinos and one Bangladeshi.

Bali’s penitentiary authorities conferred remissions on 902 inmates, with each remission ranging from one month to six months. (dmr)

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