The legal team trying to save the two Australians on Indonesian death row has not stopped fighting the fight.
The lawyers of Bali Nine drug smugglers Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan are excepted to make their case today for an appeal of the presidential decree that rejected their clemency, reports the Guardian.
Chan and Sukumaran are up to face the firing squad for a heroin trafficking plot out of Bali back in 2005.
While state court tossed out a challenge for the clemency rejection last month on jurisdictional grounds, according to the Guardian, the Bali Nine pair’s legal team will offer up more evidence to try to get the court to hear their case.
“We still have hope for Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran,” said Doly James, one of the Bali Nine pair’s lawyers, as quoted by the Guardian. “There were errors in the issuing of the clemency rejection.
“I’m not denying the prerogative rights of the president. But the president must also comply with the ethics and principle of good governance.
“The decision is still the president’s prerogative but the process should not be reckless either, the president must be responsible.”
If the appeal goes through, Chan and Sukumaran’s lawyers will argue that Indonesian president Joko Widodo did a blanket rejection of the pair’s clemency bid—that he just labeled them as drug offenders—and did not fairly examine their case and record of rehabilitation.
The court has set a deadline of April 1 for the appeal and has demanded that a decision would be made soon after, reports the Guardian.
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