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Indonesia reportedly announces moratorium on executions
Indonesia has reportedly announced no more death row prisoners will be executed for now.
According to the ABC an Indonesian government official announced the moratorium on executions would allow the nation to concentrate on “fixing its economy”.
The coordinating minister for political, legal and security affairs, Luhut Panjaitan, is understood to have made the announcement at a media conference earlier today.
The news comes seven months after Australian drug smugglers Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran were executed by firing squad in Indonesia.
The pair were executed for their roles as ringleaders of the Bali Nine drug smuggling ring and were shot with several other foreigners, mostly sentenced over drug offences.
Indonesia remained firm amid calls to suspend the death sentences, although in September Chan and Sukumaran’s lawyers indicated economic pressures could lead to a halt in executions.
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Read more at http://www.9news.com.au/world/2015/...-moratorium-on-executions#6RC9kDZJblwxhXBG.99
Indonesia has reportedly announced no more death row prisoners will be executed for now.
According to the ABC an Indonesian government official announced the moratorium on executions would allow the nation to concentrate on “fixing its economy”.
The coordinating minister for political, legal and security affairs, Luhut Panjaitan, is understood to have made the announcement at a media conference earlier today.
The news comes seven months after Australian drug smugglers Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran were executed by firing squad in Indonesia.
The pair were executed for their roles as ringleaders of the Bali Nine drug smuggling ring and were shot with several other foreigners, mostly sentenced over drug offences.
Indonesia remained firm amid calls to suspend the death sentences, although in September Chan and Sukumaran’s lawyers indicated economic pressures could lead to a halt in executions.
MORE TO COME
Read more at http://www.9news.com.au/world/2015/...-moratorium-on-executions#6RC9kDZJblwxhXBG.99