Clearly frustrated with how drawn out the impending executions of the two Australians on Indonesian death row have been, authorities are saying they don’t want to wait any longer.
Those authorities are also saying Bali Nine Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran may meet the firing squad if they can just pick a suitable date, reports the AAP.
Indonesia’s Attorney General HM Prasetyo who has been front and center with all things executions in his country has reportedly said that the date should not conflict with the Asia-Africa Conference which will be in Jakarta and Bandung from April 18-24.
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Prasetyo said he would not do the group execution (that isn’t just the Australians, but also eight others that include prisoners from the Philippines, Nigera, and Ghana) during the conference “even if it is legal” because it just would not be polite, reports the AAP.
On Wednesday, Prasetyo’s spokesman Spontana told AAP that authorities would like a date in April, but qualified that with “if there are no obstacles.”
He said that two prisoners are in the process of having their applications processed for Supreme Court judicial reviews.
The Bali Nine legal team has not given up and says it’s going for another legal challenge, but Prasetyo is saying that the appeal rejection on Monday was their last opportunity.
“We will no longer wait,” he told reporters on Tuesday, as quoted by the AAP.
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