GUILTY Bali - Bali Nine, Australians arrested for heroin trafficking, 2005

"If I can make one point about this — in 2007, the Indonesian constitutional court declared that if a person on death row could demonstrate over a period of 10 years that they had engaged in praise-worthy conduct, as they call it, then they should be entitled to have their sentences commuted to either life or 20 years."

He said the constitutional court appeal could take several months.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-04-07/bali-nine-pair-just-buying-time-indonesian-ag-says/6373894

So in the case of Heather Mack who brutally and horrifically murdered her mother, contorted her mother's brutalized body into an unnatural position so she would fit into a suitcase, then left the suitcase seeping blood in the trunk of a taxi, what did it take to demonstrate praise-worthy conduct? :thinking:

Receiving an inheritance from the mother that she murdered.
 
Bali Nine: Lawyer for Andrew Chan, Myuran Sukumaran says court challenge will not delay execution

A lawyer for two Australian drug smugglers on death row in Indonesia has said constitutional court challenges launched yesterday will not delay their executions.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-04-...rt-challenge-will-not-delay-execution/6382368

An egg-head on 2GB said the execution is expected to take place late April.
 
Haris Azhar of rights group Kontras slammed the Indonesian government's conduct and the president's "one size fits all" clemency decisions.

"With the Supreme Court website, all cases on death penalty suddenly can't be accessed," he said.

"This matter of the death penalty has been made into some kind of secrecy.

"This is an evil practice, an abuse of authority, maladministration, that makes it difficult for someone to defend."

Attorney-General HM Prasetyo says the court action won't stop the executions, because it can only impact future cases.

His spokesman says they're considering carrying out the executions after next week's Asian-African Conference in Jakarta.

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2015/04/15/advocates-add-voices-bali-nine-fight
 
It is the eve of the 10th anniversary of the Bali 9 arrests. Ch7 TV News is showing political advocates expressing that the AFP exhibited poor choice in handing our people to a death penalty country.

The AFP are saying they had 'no choice'. (Despite the fact that the planes and drugs were going to land here in Australia, and they knew they were coming.)
 
Mr Lubis also expressed his disappointment in Indonesia's use of the death penalty in light of Saudi Arabia's execution on Tuesday of Indonesian domestic worker Siti Zaenab.

Jakarta had fought hard to save the woman, and Mr Lubis fears its inconsistent position can only weaken its leverage to negotiate for others on death row.

Al Araf of rights group Imparsial agreed.

"It's funny when its domestic politics is different with its foreign politics," he said of the government.

"This has made it difficult for Indonesian diplomacy when fighting for the lives of Indonesian citizens abroad."

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2015/04/15/advocates-add-voices-bali-nine-fight
 
Sorry to hog the thread, but another thing that is nonsensical to me .... in the same prison that Andrew and Myuran are now being held, the same prison where Andrew and Myuran are allowed limited visitors, terrorists are being enabled to spread their IS teachings from prison.

(JAT, which was founded by Ba’asyir, was behind the 2002 Bali bombings. 202 people died, a further 209 were injured.)


"The supervision of terror convicts within prisons on the Nusakambangan prison island in Cilacap, Central Java, remains weak, enabling them to spread radical teachings among followers from inside their cells, says a local military official.

“Every week we record at least 15 people visiting Ba’asyir. Even worse, all the convicts there are placed in a single block, so it’s like a pesantren [religious school]” said Edison. “Based on data I’ve received, 900 people visited Ba’asyir in 2014. During the visits, many of them waited for sermons delivered by Ba’asyir.”

He said Ba’asyir, who is serving a 15-year prison term, remained adamant that Indonesia was still an infidel state that must be fought."

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2015/04/14/is-teachings-spread-within-nusakambangan-prison.html
 
Bali Nine duo's death orders sent: Jakarta issues letters to prosecutors of death row prisoners telling them to prepare for executions
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-prosecutors-ordering-prepare-executions.html

Bali Nine ringleaders Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran could face a firing squad within days after Indonesian officials sent letters ordering that preparations be made for their executions.

Indonesia's head of General Crimes sent the letters to the prosecutors of 10 death row prisoners including Australians Chan and Sukumaran on Thursday.

The Indonesian Attorney-General's spokesman, Tony Spontana, said the only thing left after this is to announce the execution date.
The Australian Embassy has been summoned to Nusakambangan Island - where the executions will be carried out - on Saturday.

Authorities in Indonesia give death row prisoners and their families 72 hours notice before they are executed, suggesting Chan and Sukumaran could face the firing squad as early as Monday or Tuesday.
 
Bali Nine ringleaders Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran: execution letters sent
APRIL 24, 2015: http://www.news.com.au/world/asia/b...ion-letters-sent/story-fnh81fz8-1227317822595

FOREIGN embassies have been summoned to a meeting in Cilacap at 10am tomorrow, prompting speculation that the Australians and the other eight to be executed will soon be given 72 hours’ notice of their death.

The meeting will be held at the Cilacap prosecutor’s office.

And prosecutors from the regions where the 10 condemned were convicted have now been instructed to travel to Cilacap to prepare for the executions.
 
Ch 7 update ... execution date will likely be announced tomorrow.

Just when we are all busy with the 100th Anzac Day commemorations. A double-insult, on our very important Anzac Day ... just when all of our politicians and influential people are in Gallipoli and other commemorative places.
 
Ch 7 update ... execution date will likely be announced tomorrow.

Just when we are all busy with the 100th Anzac Day commemorations. A double-insult, on our very important Anzac Day ... just when all of our politicians and influential people are in Gallipoli and other commemorative places.

It really is low isn't it :(
 
Nooo...just NO dammit...

SA, thank you for your updates. I was counting on you keeping their thread up to date while I was away. I was just hoping for better news...
 
The last legal hurdle preventing the death of Bali nine organisers Myuran Sukumaran​ and Andrew Chan and eight other drug felons will be resolved on Monday.

The end is near for those facing the death sentence, with lawyers in tears as they told Fairfax Media their clients' embassies had been summoned to Cilacap, near the island where the executions will be staged, on Saturday.

http://www.smh.com.au/world/bali-ni...dle-to-be-cleared-monday-20150424-1msqsq.html
 
Relatives and diplomats scrambled on Friday to visit several foreign drug convicts on death row in Indonesia as authorities, defying international outrage, made final preparations to execute them.

- "Our ambassador in Jakarta is currently engaged in making a series of representations," Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs told AFP in a statement. [Foreign Minister Julie Bishop also contacted Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi to register her concern at recent developments, following her written representation to her this week.]

- Vice President Jejomar Binay [Phillipines] said he appealed for clemency for Veloso during a bilateral meeting with his Indonesia counterpart, Jusuf Kalla, on Thursday.

- France on Thursday accused Indonesia of "serious dysfunction" in its legal system that led to Frenchman Serge Atlaoui being sentenced to death, and said his execution would be "incomprehensible".

- Consular staff assisting a Brazilian convict were told by Indonesian authorities to be in Cilacap, the port town nearest Nusakambangan, on Saturday.

http://www.gulf-times.com/asean-phi...convicts-head-to-indonesia-as-executions-loom
 
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.... seven foreign death row prisoners in Indonesia await execution by firing squad in Nusakambangan prison island. Top row from left, Australians Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan, Frenchman Serge Atlaoui and Brazilian Rodrigo Gularte. Bottom row from left. Nigerian Raheem Agbaje Salami, Filipina Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso, and Nigerian Silvester Obiekwe Nwolise

http://www.smh.com.au/world/bali-ni...cuted-within-days-lawyer-20150423-1ms4p1.html
 
From the Jakarta Globe yesterday ...

A day that no rational, compassionate human being could ever wish for appears to be at hand: the day that 10 fellow human beings, nine of them foreign nationals, are gunned down in a hail of bullets because the Indonesian government wants to make a barbarous point.

The Attorney General’s Office, which seems to be taking an awful lot of pleasure in organizing the executions ....

It is in the president’s power to end this shameful travesty and grant these individuals clemency.

We stand for mercy, Mr. President. Will you stand with us?

http://thejakartaglobe.beritasatu.com/opinion/right-thing-show-mercy-president-jokowi/
 

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