THREE members of the Bali Nine have been placed on an Indonesian execution list, with authorities insisting no mercy will be shown.
Convicted drug traffickers Andrew Chan, 24, Myuran Sukumaran, 27 and Scott Rush, 22, are on a list of 92 death row convicts who the Indonesian Attorney General’s Office insist will be put to death.
The trio are facing the death penalty for their roles in an ill-fated attempt to smuggle 8kg of heroin from Bali to Australia in 2005.
“The death sentences of the 92 convicts have been declared legally binding and are pending administrative procedures (before they are carried out),” assistant attorney general Abdul Hakim Ritonga told the Jakarta Post.
"The three death-row inmates form the 'Bali Nine' are a part of the 92 people now awaiting execution.
"They are among the 38 prisoners whose cases are under legal review.
"However, such appeals in narcotic cases are seldom successful.”
If their sentences are not reduced on appeal, the trio’s last resort will be an appeal for clemency to Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who is on record as saying he will show no mercy to those convicted of narcotics offences.
Foreign Affairs Minister Stephen Smith met with Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda in Canberra last week, confirming that the Australian Government would seek clemency for Chan, Rush and Sukumaran if all legal avenues were exhausted.
Mr Wirajuda said any plea for clemency would be considered.
However, he asked that Australians respect the Indonesian legal system, and said his government could not interfere while legal cases were ongoing.
“This is what’s difficult, because it (the death penalty) is part of our positive law,” he said.
“For the Bali Nine, their legal processes haven’t finished yet, the Supreme Court appeal, judicial review, clemency, are not finished yet.
“We as a government cannot interfere.”
Despite opposing the death penalty, going so far as to co-sponsor a UN resolution calling for a moratorium on capital punishment, the Australian Government did not speak out against the executions of Bali bombers Amrozi, Mukhlas and Imam Samudra last week.
The three Australian members of the Bali Nine were said to have been badly affected by the executions on Nusakambangan Island.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said last month that his Government would not intervene to oppose executions on foreign soil unless Australians were facing the death penalty.
Amnesty International has said the Government’s failure to call for clemency for the bombers had put the lives of Chan, Rush and Sukumaran at risk.
Two Nigerian drug smugglers were executed at Nusakambangan in late June. They were the first drug offenders to be put to death in Indonesia since 2004.
Attorney General Hendarman Supandji has publicly put other death row drug offenders on notice, saying they could expect their cases to be expedited as the government seeks to make an example of them in its bid to crack down on narcotics trafficking.
Three other members of the Bali Nine who were originally sentenced to death – Matthew Norman, Si Yi Chen and Tan Duc Thanh Nguyen – had their sentences commuted to life in March following a judicial review.
Source: heraldsun.com.au, November 17, 2008
Convicted drug traffickers Andrew Chan, 24, Myuran Sukumaran, 27 and Scott Rush, 22, are on a list of 92 death row convicts who the Indonesian Attorney General’s Office insist will be put to death.
The trio are facing the death penalty for their roles in an ill-fated attempt to smuggle 8kg of heroin from Bali to Australia in 2005.
“The death sentences of the 92 convicts have been declared legally binding and are pending administrative procedures (before they are carried out),” assistant attorney general Abdul Hakim Ritonga told the Jakarta Post.
"The three death-row inmates form the 'Bali Nine' are a part of the 92 people now awaiting execution.
"They are among the 38 prisoners whose cases are under legal review.
"However, such appeals in narcotic cases are seldom successful.”
If their sentences are not reduced on appeal, the trio’s last resort will be an appeal for clemency to Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who is on record as saying he will show no mercy to those convicted of narcotics offences.
Foreign Affairs Minister Stephen Smith met with Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda in Canberra last week, confirming that the Australian Government would seek clemency for Chan, Rush and Sukumaran if all legal avenues were exhausted.
Mr Wirajuda said any plea for clemency would be considered.
However, he asked that Australians respect the Indonesian legal system, and said his government could not interfere while legal cases were ongoing.
“This is what’s difficult, because it (the death penalty) is part of our positive law,” he said.
“For the Bali Nine, their legal processes haven’t finished yet, the Supreme Court appeal, judicial review, clemency, are not finished yet.
“We as a government cannot interfere.”
Despite opposing the death penalty, going so far as to co-sponsor a UN resolution calling for a moratorium on capital punishment, the Australian Government did not speak out against the executions of Bali bombers Amrozi, Mukhlas and Imam Samudra last week.
The three Australian members of the Bali Nine were said to have been badly affected by the executions on Nusakambangan Island.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said last month that his Government would not intervene to oppose executions on foreign soil unless Australians were facing the death penalty.
Amnesty International has said the Government’s failure to call for clemency for the bombers had put the lives of Chan, Rush and Sukumaran at risk.
Two Nigerian drug smugglers were executed at Nusakambangan in late June. They were the first drug offenders to be put to death in Indonesia since 2004.
Attorney General Hendarman Supandji has publicly put other death row drug offenders on notice, saying they could expect their cases to be expedited as the government seeks to make an example of them in its bid to crack down on narcotics trafficking.
Three other members of the Bali Nine who were originally sentenced to death – Matthew Norman, Si Yi Chen and Tan Duc Thanh Nguyen – had their sentences commuted to life in March following a judicial review.
Source: heraldsun.com.au, November 17, 2008
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