The Attorney General
of Indonesia announced yesterday that six individuals, an Indonesian national
and five foreign nationals, all convicted of and sentenced to death for
drug-related offenses are going to be executed on today 18th January
2015. 38 year-old Daniel Enemuo, alias Diarrssouba was convicted in 2004. Namaona
Denis was convicted in 2001.
It will be the
first execution under new President Joko Widodo who pledged no clemency for
drug offenders, despite pleas from the European Union, the Brazilian government
and Amnesty International.
The others due to be
executed are from Indonesia, Vietnam, the Netherlands and Brazil.
Daniel Enemuo, 38, a
Nigerian national, was sentenced to death by the Tangerang District Court in
September 2004 for attempting to smuggle 1.150 grams of heroin into the country
from Pakistan in January 2004.
Namaona Denis, 49, was
reportedly born in Nigeria but travelled to Indonesia with a Malawian passport.
He was sentenced to death by the Bandung High court in 2001 after being
convicted of smuggling 940 grams of heroin at the Soekarno-Hatta airport in
Jakarta. According to his lawyers, Denis did not understand his trial
proceedings as he was not provided with adequate interpretation.
According to Amnesty,
Five of them are reportedly going to be executed on Nusakambangan Island while
Tran Thi Bich Hanh is to be executed in Boloyali district, both in Central
Java.
Death sentences in
Indonesia are carried out by firing squad. The prisoner has the choice of
standing or sitting and whether to have their eyes covered, by a blindfold or
hood. Firing squads are made up of 12 people, three of whose rifles are loaded
with live ammunition, while the other nine are loaded with blanks.
Amnesty International
has condemned the sentences asking for a change of heart.
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