Indonesia is set to go forward with plans to execute 7 foreign drug convicts after their appeals for presidential clemency were rejected.
Nigerian, 6 others to be executed for drug trafficking
The condemned foreigners include two Australian leaders of the “Bali Nine” drug-smuggling gang and citizens of France, Brazil, Nigeria and Ghana.
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The condemned foreigners include two Australian leaders of the “Bali Nine” drug-smuggling gang and citizens of France, Brazil, and Ghana, AFP reports.
Four Indonesians are also set to be executed, one on drug charges and the others for pre-meditated murder.
“The attorney general's office now has 11 convicts on death row ready to be executed,” spokesman Tony Spontana said late on Wednesday, January 28.
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Indonesia had earlier attracted outrage when i on January 18 despite pleas from the international community to spare their lives.
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