Post by CCADP on Aug 11, 2005 22:47:48 GMT -5
Executions close for Bali bombers
Jakarta
Friday, 12 August 2005
Executions for the three Bali bombers could be imminent with their lawyers and justice officials expecting to receive letters from the Indonesian Government authorising the carrying out of their death sentences.
Adnan Wirawan, the lawyer for the so-called smiling assassin Amrozi bin Nurhasyim, as well as bombing mastermind Imam Samudra and financier Mukhlas, said he had heard that a letter had been sent to authorities in Bali, clearing the way for police to organise firing squads.
"I have not yet seen it from the attorney-general, it's not here yet," Mr Adnan said.
"But if it's really been issued, we will fight it."
Imam Samudra, a computer expert and the only one of the suspected bombers to have a university degree, was convicted in September, 2003, and shouted "Allahu Akbar" (God is great) as the verdict was read out.
He said he was happy about the number of foreigners killed in the Bali attack, including 88 Australians, but regretted the 38 Indonesian victims among the 202 people killed. The head of the justice ministry's prisons division in Bali, Mayun Mataram, also said an execution letter had been issued by justice officials in Jakarta.
"But officially the letter hasn't been received," he said.
When received, the letter could mean the death sentences are carried out within the next few months.
A spokesman for the attorney- general's office was unavailable.
The three bombers have all had their appeals rejected. Their last hope of avoiding death rests with a clemency request to Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
Mr Adnan said the clemency requests had been sent automatically by the Denpasar District Court, although the three themselves had not asked for mercy from their death- row cells at Denpasar's Kerobokan Prison. "They never wanted clemency," he said. "They don't want mercy."
The court's chief registrar, I Nengah Sarwa, said the clemency letters had been sent to the Supreme Court in Jakarta and then to the President as part of general sentence remission requests made to coincide with Indonesia's independence day on August 17.
"If convicted, their family or lawyers don't submit for clemency, the head of the district court may submit it on their behalf," he said.
Mr Mayun said 19 convicted Bali bombers would receive automatic sentence remissions next week of between one and six months.
Amrozi, Samudra and Mukhlas were not on the list.
Meanwhile, Indonesian prosecutors have demanded the death sentence for a militant accused of being one of the key architects of last year's suicide car bomb attack on the Australian embassy in Jakarta.
Iwan Darmawan, known as Rois, allegedly purchased a minivan and fertiliser used in the deadly attack, as well as a filing cabinet into which the explosives were packed.
Death sentences in Indonesia are carried out in a remote forest or on a remote beach.
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Jakarta
Friday, 12 August 2005
Executions for the three Bali bombers could be imminent with their lawyers and justice officials expecting to receive letters from the Indonesian Government authorising the carrying out of their death sentences.
Adnan Wirawan, the lawyer for the so-called smiling assassin Amrozi bin Nurhasyim, as well as bombing mastermind Imam Samudra and financier Mukhlas, said he had heard that a letter had been sent to authorities in Bali, clearing the way for police to organise firing squads.
"I have not yet seen it from the attorney-general, it's not here yet," Mr Adnan said.
"But if it's really been issued, we will fight it."
Imam Samudra, a computer expert and the only one of the suspected bombers to have a university degree, was convicted in September, 2003, and shouted "Allahu Akbar" (God is great) as the verdict was read out.
He said he was happy about the number of foreigners killed in the Bali attack, including 88 Australians, but regretted the 38 Indonesian victims among the 202 people killed. The head of the justice ministry's prisons division in Bali, Mayun Mataram, also said an execution letter had been issued by justice officials in Jakarta.
"But officially the letter hasn't been received," he said.
When received, the letter could mean the death sentences are carried out within the next few months.
A spokesman for the attorney- general's office was unavailable.
The three bombers have all had their appeals rejected. Their last hope of avoiding death rests with a clemency request to Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
Mr Adnan said the clemency requests had been sent automatically by the Denpasar District Court, although the three themselves had not asked for mercy from their death- row cells at Denpasar's Kerobokan Prison. "They never wanted clemency," he said. "They don't want mercy."
The court's chief registrar, I Nengah Sarwa, said the clemency letters had been sent to the Supreme Court in Jakarta and then to the President as part of general sentence remission requests made to coincide with Indonesia's independence day on August 17.
"If convicted, their family or lawyers don't submit for clemency, the head of the district court may submit it on their behalf," he said.
Mr Mayun said 19 convicted Bali bombers would receive automatic sentence remissions next week of between one and six months.
Amrozi, Samudra and Mukhlas were not on the list.
Meanwhile, Indonesian prosecutors have demanded the death sentence for a militant accused of being one of the key architects of last year's suicide car bomb attack on the Australian embassy in Jakarta.
Iwan Darmawan, known as Rois, allegedly purchased a minivan and fertiliser used in the deadly attack, as well as a filing cabinet into which the explosives were packed.
Death sentences in Indonesia are carried out in a remote forest or on a remote beach.
canberra.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?class=news&subclass=international&category=general%20news&story_id=415688&y=2005&m=8