AFP
Six people, including five foreigners, were shot in the night from Saturday to Sunday in Indonesian prisons have been sentenced them to death for drug trafficking. The execution was despite calls for their pardon.
Indonesian Attorney General spokesman Tony spontana reported that convicted on which carried the death sentence were citizens of Brazil, Malawi, Nigeria, the Netherlands and Vietnam.
The sixth was convicted and lost Indonesian woman.
Joko Widodo Indonesian President rejected in December last year, calls for their pardon. Also rejected addressed to him at the last minute requests Dilma Rousseff, President of Brazil and the Government of the Netherlands to spare the lives of their citizens. Widodo said that will not mercy to drug offenders because “they have ruined the lives of so many people.”
Rousseff said in a statement has expressed “outrage and disgust” because of the execution of a citizen of Brazil and stressed that it will have ” negative impact “on relations between the two countries.
In the cell death of yet another Brazilian resident sentenced to capital punishment for drug trafficking.
Indonesia has the world’s strictest drug laws. Possession and drug trafficking are punishable death. In 2013. Resumed the exercise of death sentences after unofficial moratorium, which was in force for four years.
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