INDONESIA. AUTHORITIES TO EXECUTE 16 DRUG OFFENDERS, INCLUDING 10 FOREIGNERS

06 July 2006 :

Indonesian authorities were preparing to execute 16 people on death row for drug trafficking, an official said.
"The prosecutors' office has already made preparation for the execution of 16 people on the death row for drug trafficking," said an official at the attorney general's office.
She cited Attorney General Spokesman I Wayan Pasek as saying that the 16 convicts were all sentenced to death for drug trafficking and had exhausted every legal avenue of appeal.
The 16 include seven Nigerians, one each from Nepal, Malawi and Thailand, and six Indonesians, the official said. There were three women among them, two from Indonesia and one from Thailand.
 

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