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Bali Nine: doubts over claim Australian pair will be in next group to be executed | |
(about 3 hours later) | |
Conflicting reports on Wednesday night cast more doubt over the immediate fate of the Australians Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan, on death row in Indonesia for their part in a 2005 drug smuggling plot. | |
Attorney general HM Prasetyo was reported as saying his department was still evaluating six executions held last week, but the Australians would be among the next round. | |
“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 reportedly told a parliamentary committee. | |
He didn’t reveal the names of the next prisoners, but Chan and Sukumaran are the only Australians on death row, and Prasetyo has said previously they would be dealt with together. | |
However, later reports contradicted that information. The attorney-general’s spokesman, Tony Spontana, said Prasetyo did not make the comments, the ABC reported. | |
The head of the parliamentary committee, Azis Syamsuddin, said the attorney-general did no mention the nationalities of the next group of people to be executed. | |
Prasetyo reportedly said the next executions would likely again be held on the Central Java prison island of Nusakambangan, but there had been issues that needed attention. | |
“There were obstacles,” he told the committee. “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.” | “We can’t prevent them from getting close to the execution location.These are all being evaluated.” |
Lawyers for Chan, 31 and Sukumaran, 33, are in Bali preparing to lodge a final court appeal. | Lawyers for Chan, 31 and Sukumaran, 33, are in Bali preparing to lodge a final court appeal. |
The pair were considered the ringleaders in the 2005 so-called Bali Nine heroin smuggling plot. | The pair were considered the ringleaders in the 2005 so-called Bali Nine heroin smuggling plot. |