The Attorney General of Indonesia announced today that six individuals, an Indonesian national and five foreign nationals, all convicted of and sentenced to death for drug-related offenses are going to be executed on 18 January 2015. 38 year-old Daniel Enemuo, alias Diarrssouba was convicted in 2004.Namaona Denis was convicted in 2001..It will be the first execution under new President Joko Widodo who pledged no clemency for drug offenders, despite pleas from the European Union, the Brazilian government and Amnesty International.
The others due to be executed are from Indonesia, Vietnam, the Netherlands and Brazil. Daniel Enemuo, 38, a Nigerian national, was sentenced to death by the Tangerang District Court in September 2004 for attempting to smuggle 1.150 grams of heroin into the country from Pakistan in January 2004.
Namaona Denis, 49, was reportedly born in Nigeria but travelled to Indonesia with a Malawian passport. He wassentenced to death by the Bandung High court in 2001 after being convicted of smuggling 940 grams of heroin at the Soekarno-Hatta airport in Jakarta. According to his lawyers, Denis did not understand his trial proceedings as he was not provided with adequate interpretation.
(culled: talk of naija)
This is so sad!!!!! Dying in a foreign country like this???? What a loss!!
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