Chan and Sukumaran not the only prisoners Indonesia is ready to execute
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Version 0 of 1. The following prisoners have been denied presidential clemency as drug offenders and will possibly be among those executed this month, along with Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran: Martin Anderson (alias Belo, from Ghana) Sentenced to death by South Jakarta district court in June 2004 after being convicted of possessing 50g of heroin in Jakarta in November 2003 Zainal Abidin (Indonesia) Initially sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment by Palembang district court in September 2001 for smuggling 58.7kg of marijuana. He was later sentenced to death by the Palembang high court in December 2001 Raheem Agbaje Salami (Nigeria) Initially sentenced to life imprisonment by Surabaya district court in April 1999 for smuggling 5.3kg of heroin into Indonesia at the East Java city’s airport in September 1998. In May 2006 he was sentenced to death by the supreme court and was not able to appeal to a higher court, according to Amnesty International Rodrigo Gularte (Brazil) Sentenced to death by the Tangerang district court in February 2005 for smuggling 6kg of cocaine into Jakarta. According to his lawyer, he has paranoid schizophrenia and has not been able to discuss his case with his counsel Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso (Philippines) Sentenced to death in October 2010 for attempting to smuggle 2.6kg of heroin into Indonesia from Malaysia in April 2010. Veloso, who comes from a poor rural family in the Philippines, was reportedly acting as a courier for an international syndicate when she was arrested on arrival at Yogyakarta, central Java from an Air Asia flight from Kuala Lumpur Serge Areski Atlaoui (France) Father of four was arrested near Jakarta in 2005 in a secret laboratory producing ecstasy. He has always denied the charges, saying he was installing machinery in what he thought was an acrylics factory Sylvester Obiekwe (alias Mustopa, from Nigeria) First arrested in 2003 for smuggling 1.2kg of heroin into Indonesia. He has since been caught operating drugs syndicates even from death row, and is considered a priority for execution. Source: Amnesty International, media reports. |