[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----worldwide

Fri Jan 30 16:32:58 CST 2015

INDONESIA:

SIX EXECUTED, NINE MORE AT RISK

The Indonesian authorities executed six people by firing squad on 18 
January. Nine more people are
at risk of execution.

View the full Urgent Action, including case information, addresses and 
sample messages, here.

Rani Andriani alias Melisa Aprilia (Indonesian), Daniel Enemuo (Nigerian), 
Ang Kiem Soei (Dutch),
Tran Thi Bich Hanh (Vietnamese), Namaona Denis (Nigerian) and Marco Archer 
Cardoso Moreira
(Brazilian) were executed by firing squad just after midnight on 18 
January. All were convicted of
and sentenced to death for drug-related offenses. Five of them were 
executed on Nusakambangan Island
while Tran Thi Bich Hanh was executed in Boyolali district, both in 
Central Java.

Amnesty International is concerned that more executions will follow. The 
Indonesian government
announced in December 2014 that 20 people are scheduled to be executed in 
2015. Nine men are at
imminent risk of execution after their clemency applications were rejected 
by President Joko Widodo
in December 2014 and January 2015. They are Syofial alias Iyen bin Azwar 
(Indonesian), Harun bin
Ajis (Indonesian), Sargawi alias Ali bin Sanusi (Indonesian), Myuran 
Sukumaran (Australian), Andrew
Chan (Australian), Martin Anderson alias Belo (Ghanaian), Zainal Abidin 
(Indonesian), Raheem Agbaje
Salami ‎(Nigerian) and Rodrigo Gularte (Brazilian). They were convicted for 
either premeditated
murder or drug-related crimes. Another two people have also had their 
clemency applications
rejected.

Death sentences in Indonesia are carried out by firing squad. The prisoner 
has the choice of
standing or sitting and whether to have their eyes covered, by a blindfold 
or hood. Firing squads
are made up of 12 people, three of whose rifles are loaded with live 
ammunition, while the other
nine rifles are loaded with blanks. The squad fires from a distance of 
between five and 10 meters.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

The following is further information on the nine men:

  *  Syofial alias Iyen bin Azwar, Harun bin Ajis and Sargawi alias Ali bin 
Sanusi, all Indonesian
     nationals, were sentenced to death by the Bangko District Court in 
November 2001 for the murder
     of seven members of an indigenous community (Suku Anak Dalam) in 
Merangin District, Jambi
     Province.
  *  Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan, Australian nationals, were sentenced 
to death by the Denpasar
     District Court in February 2006 for attempting to traffic more than 8 
kilograms of heroin to
     Australia in 2005.
  *  Martin Anderson alias Belo, a Ghanaian national, was sentenced to 
death by the South Jakarta
     District Court in June 2004 after being convicted of possessing 50 
grams of heroin in Jakarta in
     November 2003.
  *  Zainal Abidin, an Indonesian national, was initially sentenced to 15 
years’ imprisonment by the
     Palembang District Court in September 2001 for smuggling 58.7 
kilograms of marijuana. He was
     later sentenced to death by the Palembang High Court in December 2001.
  *  Raheem Agbaje Salami, a Nigerian national, was initially sentenced to 
life imprisonment by the
     Surabaya District Court in April 1999 for smuggling 5.3 kilograms of 
heroin into Indonesia at
     the Juanda airport, East Java province in September 1998. In May 2006 
he was sentenced to death
     by the Supreme Court and was not able to appeal against his death 
sentence to a higher court, a
     right guaranteed by Safeguard No.6 of the UN Safeguards guaranteeing 
protection of the rights of
     those facing the death penalty, approved by Economic and Social 
Council resolution 1984/50 of 25
     May 1984.
  *  Rodrigo Gularte, a Brazilian national, was sentenced to death by the 
Tangerang District Court in
     February 2005 for smuggling six kilograms of cocaine into Indonesia at 
the Cengkareng airport,
     Banten province. According to his lawyer, he has paranoid 
schizophrenia and has not been able to
     recognize or discuss his case with his counsel. International law and 
standards on the use of
     capital punishment clearly state that the death penalty should not be 
imposed or carried out on
     people with mental or intellectual disabilities. This applies whether 
the disability was
     relevant at the time of their alleged commission of the crime or 
developed after the person was
     sentenced to death.
View the full Urgent Action here.

Name: Rani Andriani alias Melisa Aprilia (f), Daniel Enemuo (m), Ang Kiem 
Soei (m), Tran Thi Bich
Hanh (f), Namaona Denis (m), Marco Archer Cardoso Moreira (m), Syofial 
alias Iyen bin Azwar (m),
Harun bin Ajis (m), Sargawi alias Ali bin Sanusi (m), Myuran Sukumaran 
(m), Andrew Chan (m), Martin
Anderson alias Belo (m), Zainal Abidin (m), Raheem Agbaje Salami (m) and 
Rodrigo Gularte (m).
Issues: Death penalty, Imminent execution, Legal concern
Further information on UA: 305/14 (5 December 2014) and update (January 13 
2015, 15 January 2015)
Issue Date: 30 January 2015
Country: Indonesia

Please let us know if you took action so that we can track our impact!

EITHER send a short email to uan at aiusa.org with "UA 305/14" in the subject 
line, and include in the
body of the email the number of letters and/or emails you sent.

OR fill out this short online form to let us know how you took action.

Thank you for taking action! Please check with the AIUSA Urgent Action 
Office if sending appeals
after the below date. This is the third update of UA 305/14. Further 
information:
http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/ASA21/003/2015/en. If you receive a 
response from a
government official, please forward it to us at uan at aiusa.org or to the 
Urgent Action Office address
below.

HOW YOU CAN HELP

Please write immediately in English, Indonesian or your own language:
  *  Urging the authorities to immediately halt plans to carry out any 
executions;
  *  Calling on them to establish a moratorium on all executions with a 
view to abolishing the death
     penalty and to commute all death sentences to terms of imprisonment;
  *  Pointing out that there is no convincing evidence that the death 
penalty deters crime more
     effectively than other punishments and that the decision to resume 
executions has set Indonesia
     against the global trend towards abolition of the death penalty and 
the country’s own progress
     in this area.

PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 13 MARCH 2015 TO:

President of the Republic of Indonesia
H. E. Joko Widodo
Istana Merdeka
Jakarta Pusat 10110
Indonesia
Fax: 011 62 21 386 4816 / 011 62 21 344 2233
Email: ppid at setkab.go.id
Twitter: jokowi_do2
Salutation: Dear President

Attorney General
H. M. Prasetyo
Jl. Sultan Hasanuddin No. 1, Jakarta Selatan, Jakarta 12160, Indonesia
Fax: 011 62 21 722 1269 / 011 62 21 725 0213
Email:humas_puspenkum at yahoo.co.uk
Salutation: Dear Attorney General

And copies to:
State Secretariat Minister
Pratikno
Gedung Sekretariat Negara RI
Sayap Timur Lantai 3
Jalan Veteran III No. 10
Jakarta Pusat, Indonesia 10110
Fax: 011 62 21 345 6189
Email: dumas at setneg.go.id

Also send copies to:
H.E. Ambassador Budi Bowoleksono, Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia
2020 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington DC 20036
Fax: 1 202 775 5365  I  Phone: 1 202 775 5200  I  Email: 
ikuhn at embassyofindonesia.org  or
  http://www.embassyofindonesia.org/contactform/contact-form.php

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