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

[PrimeSuspect]

:cursing: I knew it!! I knew it would come to this! IMO, this is what it's all been about.

 

[PrimeSuspect]

Bali Nine: Sir Richard Branson joins calls for clemency; Indonesia reminds Australia about asylum seekers

Sir Richard and fellow commissioners have written to Indonesian president Joko Widodo, saying the impending execution of 10 prisoners for drug crimes - including Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran - is a barbaric and inhumane form of punishment.

"What we have learned is that treating drugs as a health issue - not as a criminal issue - it actually helps lower the number of drug deaths," he said.
"It limits the spread of infectious diseases like HIV and AIDS or hepatitis C, it reduces drug-related crime, and it allows people who struggle with addiction to become useful members of society again.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-03-...seeker-richard-branson-clemency-drugs/6299838

 

[SouthAussie]

You know, it would help if they told their people the truth over there. :gaah:


"Indonesians strongly support the death penalty, but the remarkable rehabilitation of the Bali nine duo is not widely known.

Even less well known is that the drugs they were trafficking were heading for Australia, a fact that even senior officials seem to be in denial about.

Bali governor Made Pastika, a former head of the anti-narcotics police, is a prime example.

Asked about the intended destination of the drugs last month, he said: "No we don't know that. The fact is that we arrested them here with the heroin, we don't know, are you sure they are going [there]?".

The Bali nine couriers were arrested at Denpasar airport after purchasing tickets for Australia.

The Australian Federal Police, who tipped off Indonesian authorities, made it clear the plot was to bring heroin to Australia."

http://www.smh.com.au/world/bali-ni...nite-on-execution-island-20150311-141gjp.html

 

[SouthAussie]

Australia's most senior Muslim cleric, the Grand Mufti, has flown to Jakarta to plead for the lives of Bali nine ringleaders Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan.

"We offer no criticism of the justice system in recent cases," he said.

"However, we note that mercy and forgiveness lies at the heart of Islam for those who repent and have reformed their ways. We urge that the heritage of mercy in our religion is fully and deeply considered in the application of state law."

Indonesia is the world's most populous Muslim-majority country.

The Grand Mufti was accompanied by Sheikh Mohamed Khamis, the Vice President of the NSW Islamic Council and imam for the Newcastle mosque, Sheikh Dr Amin Hady, chairman of the foundation of Islamic studies in Australia .....

Sheikhs Hady and Hamzah are of Indonesian background.

They also emphasised they attended the meeting on behalf of the Islamic community of Australia and the initiative was independent of the Australian government.

http://www.smh.com.au/world/bali-ni...ew-chan-myuran-sukumaran-20150311-141jib.html

 

[SouthAussie]

Andrew and Myuran's has been delayed by another week. The Indonesian president did not have any legal representative in court.



The final appeal for the Bali nine ringleaders has been adjourned until next week because the representative for Indonesian president Joko Widodo did not have a signed document.

Presiding judge Ujang Abdullah said the appeal could not be heard on Thursday because the president's representative in court did not have a signed letter of power of attorney.

He adjourned the case until March 19. Chan and Sukumaran's Melbourne lawyer, Julian McMahon, left the court without commenting.


But Mr Prasetyo told news website Liptuan6.com it would "clearly be impossible to cancel the executions".

"There is no delay due to intervention from Australia or other counties offering prisoner swaps," he said. "Threats and pressure - it's normal."

He said his office was only waiting for the judicial review of Mary Jane Veloso to be resolved. "We respect the legal process. We hope the process can be completed soon," he said.

http://www.smh.com.au/world/bali-ni...eal-adjourned-for-a-week-20150312-1428y2.html

 

[they'll get you]

Indonesian authorities unsure how many will die with Bali Nine duo Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran

Only hours before the event was due to begin, the Kerobokan Jail governor Sudjonggo ordered all 92 prisoner paintings to be removed and cancelled the event.

He said that after authorities realised the event would be a tribute to Myuran Sukumaran they decided to call it off.

http://www.news.com.au/national/ind...myuran-sukumaran/story-fncynjr2-1227261816139

 

[SouthAussie]

Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran of the Bali Nine could soon undergo a training program to mentally prepare them for the firing squad.

It comes with news senior members of the Indonesian government are now calling for the lives of the two Australians to be spared.

http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/world/bali-nine-duo-to-undergo-training-program/


He also flagged for the first time a period of "assimilation".

"Assimilation is preparing mentally the death convicts who's about to face execution," he said. "There, they will be accompanied by religious figures until they're truly ready."

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2015/03/14/indonesia-flags-death-row-assimilation-process


BBM: What a freaking joke!
As if anyone is ever 'truly ready' to be dragged out at midnight, blindfolded, tied to a pole, have a target placed over their heart, and be shot to death by a firing squad. :stormingmad:

Sorry, but this Indonesian Attorney General sounds more and more stubbornly moronic every time he opens his mouth.

 

[they'll get you]

Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran of the Bali Nine could soon undergo a training program to mentally prepare them for the firing squad.

It comes with news senior members of the Indonesian government are now calling for the lives of the two Australians to be spared.

http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/world/bali-nine-duo-to-undergo-training-program/


He also flagged for the first time a period of "assimilation".

"Assimilation is preparing mentally the death convicts who's about to face execution," he said. "There, they will be accompanied by religious figures until they're truly ready."

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2015/03/14/indonesia-flags-death-row-assimilation-process


BBM: What a freaking joke!
As if anyone is ever 'truly ready' to be dragged out at midnight, blindfolded, tied to a pole, have a target placed over their heart, and be shot to death by a firing squad. :stormingmad:

Sorry, but this Indonesian Attorney General sounds more and more stubbornly moronic every time he opens his mouth.

I have no words....mentally prepare?.....what give them a psycology session so they can cope in the afterlife?

 

[newone]

eeks whole new meaning for exit interview.....((thank you HR folks))

 

[SouthAussie]

Sydney pastor Mal Feebrey said he was dying from liver disease when Chan looked him in the eyes and said "have mine" inside Bali's Kerobokan prison in 2010.

"I think what really knocked me about was that I looked him in the eye, and he was fair dinkum," Mr Feebrey said.

"It really touched me. Here I am waiting for a donor, I'm dying in front of my wife and kids and here he is going 'my liver's ok, you can have mine'."

The Bali nine "ringleader" got his blood tested and had made inquires with doctors to see whether organ donation was possible.

"He was sort of like, if they want to kill me, then you can have my liver. It wasn't a passing-the-time comment, he wanted to make it happen. If he could have pulled it off he would have."

He said that he last spoke to him three Sundays ago "saying 'I love you man'" and Chan replied "I love you too".

http://www.smh.com.au/national/bali...ered-his-liver-to-a-mate-20150314-140976.html

 

[newone]

I must say I have been truly impressed with Chan from what I have read from the MSM articles. He's an inspiration and I really hope that there is an 11th hour reprieve but if there isn't I would pray that his example would inspire others to make positive changes.

 

[SouthAussie]

Described as a premeditated and “sadistic” murder of a father and his school-age son, one of the three killers reportedly learned yesterday that his clemency had been granted.

After killing the pair the killers stole his car, many mobile phones and phone credit, selling the car in South Sumatra.

Human rights groups welcomed the decision to give clemency to killers but say it highlights the inequities in the country’s judicial system which is “far from fair”.

And it comes after three convicted terrorists walked free from Nusa Kambangan last week, after serving seven to eight years of a 10-year sentence for stockpiling weapons and planning terror attacks.

Utomo Karim, the lawyer for Nigerian death row inmate, Raheem Agbaje Salami, whose real name is Jamu Owolabi Abashin, and who shares a cell block with the two Australians on Nusa Kambangan, said that the President’s failure to individually consider each clemency case on drug matters, was a double standard.

It comes as pressure mounts on President Widodo from within his own circles to call off the executions of drug traffickers, including Chan and Sukumaran.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/...om-death-to-life/story-fnihsmjt-1227262734944

 

[SouthAussie]

Members of the European Parliament wrote to Indonesian President Joko Widodo last week asking him to call off the executions while the UN High Commissioner for Refugees has asked Indonesia to reintroduce its moratorium on capital punishment.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/new...o-a-close-friend/story-e6frg6nf-1227263932902

 

[they'll get you]

Bali Nine pair await Jakarta's next move
Updated: 5:53 am, Wednesday, 18 March 2015

Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan are awaiting Jakarta's next move after another death row convict was granted an appeal that will take months.

Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso, who was scheduled to face the firing squad with the Australians, has been granted a judicial review.

Supreme Court spokesman, Suhadi, told Kompas newspaper the Filipina's case 'could take months'.

Judges would be appointed this week and the reviews typically take three months.

With Jakarta indicating it would prefer to wait for all the legal appeals to be heard before killing 10 drug convicts, it means the Bali Nine pair could avoid the firing squad for months.

- See more at: http://www.skynews.com.au/news/top-...jakarta-s-next-move.html#sthash.0iF8RdGM.dpuf



- See more at: http://www.skynews.com.au/news/top-...jakarta-s-next-move.html#sthash.0iF8RdGM.dpuf

 

[they'll get you]

THERE are rumours that the executions of up to 11 drug runners, including Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, may not occur until after the Asian-African Conference concludes in Indonesia in late April.


http://www.news.com.au/national/bal...rican-conference/story-fncynjr2-1227266818172

 

[SouthAussie]

ANDREW Chan, Myuran Sukumaran and others facing execution in Indonesia could still launch multiple legal actions to delay or prevent their executions, says an Australian legal expert based in Hong Kong.

Dr Pascoe has written a paper outlining grounds for new legal challenges to save the death-row prisoners, in addition to the action that is currently afoot in the State Administrative Court of Jakarta.

1. He sees grounds for an international challenge, given that in 2006 Indonesia became a signatory to the UN’s International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights ...

2. Most prisoners spend long years on death-row, which could go against the Constitution’s Articles 28G (2) and 28H (1), which set out the right “to be free from torture of inhuman or degrading treatment” and “the right to physical and mental wellbeing”.

3. Another potential challenge arises from 2010 amendments designed to streamline the clemency process. This could be challenged on the basis of Article 28A in the Indonesian Constitution, which sets out the “Right to Life and to Defend Life and Existence”.

4. A final ground for challenge relates to the Peninjaun Kembali, or PK, the extraordinary judicial review by the Supreme Court, which every prisoner is entitled to apply for after being sentenced to death. The nature of the PK has changed after the Constitutional Court in 2014 struck out a law limiting a person to only one PK. Prisoners have also used the hearings to present arguments about rehabilitation.

http://www.news.com.au/national/bal...revent-execution/story-fncynjr2-1227268538740

 

[SouthAussie]

The appeal against the clemency denial went to court today .. and has been adjourned till next week, with two following court dates after that. I can't imagine the stress that Andrew and Myuran are feeling, but at least they are still alive, with their lawyers fighting hard for that to continue to be the case.


"Two Australian drug convicts on death row in Indonesia will not be executed this month after a court on Thursday postponed their appeal hearing against the rejection of a request for presidential clemency.

"The hearing for both cases has been delayed until March 25 for our side to submit evidence. March 30 will be their (the defense) turn," said Leonard Arfan, lawyer for the two Australians.

Judge Ujang Abdullah said final arguments would be heard on April 1 and a verdict would be announced soon afterwards."

http://www.thanhniennews.com/world/...n-on-australian-death-row-convicts-40025.html

 

[SouthAussie]

In the pre-dawn, as armoured personnel carriers waited to take him away, Myuran Sukumaran grasped Chen’s hand through the cell bars and asked him and fellow Bali Nine member Matthew Norman to take care of his beloved rehabilitation programs and the fellow prisoners in them.

Since Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan walked out of Kerobokan jail their cellmates of 10 years have been living their own personal trauma, grieving the loss of people who were like family.

“Life without Myu is still hard to accept. Sometimes I think I hear their voices. We helped each other a lot when he is here so (it) needs time to adjust,” Chen says through Ms Witt. “The others feel the same and we are still praying and hoping for a miracle,” he says of the wishes of all those in Kerobokan whose lives were touched by Chan and Sukumaran.

…. the gap left by their departure, for Nusakambangan where authorities want them executed, is big.

“There is a lot of healing going on in there (the jail) right now and there is a lot of grief, including the guards. There is a huge gap and we are going to hold this together until he comes back,” she said.

http://www.news.com.au/national/the-man-wholl-take-sukumarans-cell/story-fncynjr2-1227273691646

 

[Brightbird]

While the media has quietened lately, I sure hope there are still efforts going on 'behind the scenes' from our government.

 

[SouthAussie]

While the media has quietened lately, I sure hope there are still efforts going on 'behind the scenes' from our government.

I think that the effort is continuing, even though we are no longer hearing about it. I think we may just be keeping a lower profile to give the Indonesian president an opportunity to quietly change things without intense media scrutiny and losing face. It will probably heat back up if nothing changes imo.

These comments are from yesterday.


The Australian government will keep pushing for clemency for Bali Nine pair Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan while their lawyers fight for another appeal. Ms Bishop says the government's stance remains the same.

'We will continue to make representations that these men should be granted clemency,' she said.

'We will continue to make those representations to the Indonesian government, but while they're still alive there is still hope.'

http://www.skynews.com.au/news/nati...mency-bid-continues.html#sthash.9Jh0iVTV.dpuf