According to reports, it seems likely that Bali Nine Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran are among the death row prisoners that Indonesia will execute next.
Indonesia’s attorney general HM Prasetyo did not straight out call them by name, but when listing nationalities of the next to be executed, he did list Australia. Chan and Sukumaran are the only Australians currently on Indonesian death row, reports the AAP. He also previously said the two would be executed together.
Referring to the first round of executions earlier this month on January 18, Prasetyo says the second wave of executions won’t be fixed until the first round is fully evaluated. “We are still finding the right time for the next executions of citizens of France, Ghana, Cordova, Brazil, the Philippines, Australia and one Indonesian,” he told a parliamentary committee, as quoted by the AAP.
Prasetyo also said the next round of executions would likely be held again on the Central Java prison island of Nusakambangan (no doubt to the relief of Bali’s governor), but mentioned some issues that needed to worked out first.
“The intrusion of human rights activists, the efforts of our electronic media reporters, trying to disguise themselves as fishermen.
“We can’t prevent them from getting close to the execution location.These are all being evaluated.”
Chan and Sukumaran’s lawyers have not given up yet and are prepping a final court appeal.
The two are on death row for being ring leaders in a heroin smuggling plot out of Bali in 2005.
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