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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia is preparing to move a Filipina death row inmate for execution after she lost her appeal in the Supreme Court earlier this week, the attorney general's spokesman said on Friday.
The planned executions of Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso and nine other mostly foreign drug traffickers has drawn international criticism after repeated pleas for mercy from the United Nations and various governments have gone unheeded by President Joko Widodo.
Veloso will be moved from the city of Yogyakarta to the maximum security prison on Nusakambangan Island in Central Java, where the rest of the group awaits execution by firing squad.
"We can say that (Veloso's) case is done," the attorney general's spokesman Tony Spontana told reporters.
"There will be preparations to move her soon because the plan to execute all (10 convicts) at once hasn't changed."
The attorney general's office has yet to announce a date for the executions.
Four other foreign nationals in the group have also lodged last-minute appeals against their death sentences, forcing the attorney general to hold off on the executions until all legal processes are seen through.
Two Australian prisoners are among those appealing their sentences. The Australian government has been pursuing an eleventh-hour campaign to save their lives, but Widodo has refused to budge, ramping up diplomatic tensions between the neighbors.
Indonesia has harsh penalties for drug trafficking and resumed executions in 2013 after a five-year gap.
The planned executions of Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso and nine other mostly foreign drug traffickers has drawn international criticism after repeated pleas for mercy from the United Nations and various governments have gone unheeded by President Joko Widodo.
Veloso will be moved from the city of Yogyakarta to the maximum security prison on Nusakambangan Island in Central Java, where the rest of the group awaits execution by firing squad.
"We can say that (Veloso's) case is done," the attorney general's spokesman Tony Spontana told reporters.
"There will be preparations to move her soon because the plan to execute all (10 convicts) at once hasn't changed."
The attorney general's office has yet to announce a date for the executions.
Four other foreign nationals in the group have also lodged last-minute appeals against their death sentences, forcing the attorney general to hold off on the executions until all legal processes are seen through.
Two Australian prisoners are among those appealing their sentences. The Australian government has been pursuing an eleventh-hour campaign to save their lives, but Widodo has refused to budge, ramping up diplomatic tensions between the neighbors.
Indonesia has harsh penalties for drug trafficking and resumed executions in 2013 after a five-year gap.
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Indonesia is tops in the smack trade.If you are going to make a move out of there,U have to know it can cost your life....
I say shoodum!!
The problem is the courts and prosecutors are corrupt. Indonesia will execute the hapless patsy and let the drug lords go, or just some short prison time. All they accomplish is to let the little fish know they better not rat on the big fish, because the government will kill them anyway without punishing the wealthy drug lords.
That British woman was under threat, forced to haul some dope in her luggage. She volunteered to help the cops burn the people who threatened her family, pulled off a sting operation they could not have managed without her taking that big risk.
So now she is on death row anyway while the real drug smugglers either got off completely or just short time behind bars.
Drugs or rifled weapons in Malaysia will cost you your life. The kicker is...you'll never make it to the actual execution! (and that's just how they want it).
The way it works is like this; you get the "strokes" first and a bunch of jail time just getting to trial (there is no such thing as "bond" over in that part of the world). You will exist, as long as you can survive (which isn't long) in an infected, rotting, jail cell full of every vermin imaginable.
The first time you get out is for your 'strokes' (whipping). They call it "strokes of the rattan"; it's a specialized whip made from rattan which is a very stiff reed, and the guy who administers this punishment has spent his whole life perfecting his art. From there you are strapped to a cross, but face first. And they strap a leather shield on your backside which has a window where your backside is exposed, but your legs and back are covered.
Death sentences usually come with 50-100 'strokes'...in addition to being executed. Here's how the strokes work; depending on your body type they will decide to administer 1, 2 or 3 strokes. Sometimes this has also to do with your behavior. These strokes are different than 'lashes' like you see in Singapore; same instrument, but much different results. A normal healthy human cannot survive 4 'strokes'.
So on the day you are to recieve the strokes you are strapped onto this sloped cross arangement and they administer the strokes you are to receive that day. Most people lose consciousness after the 1st or 2nd one. After that, they take you down and you usually go straight to the hospital ICU for shock, trauma and blood loss. It takes about a week to get out of there, after which you are placed back in your infected and filthy cell. The wounds are so great you cannot sit down or lay on your back, so your only choice is to lay down face first in your own waste and squalor. They send a doctor in to look at you every day, but it's not for your welfare (not in the least)!
After about two weeks, right when you start healing up just enough to not wallow around face first in the excrement and muck 24 hours a day...
...THEN you go back for the 2nd round!!! (and the 3rd, and 19th and 43rd)!![:0]
And this continues...for months and months until you either die or your execution is commuted.
You know what? People are actually afraid (very) to go to jail over there!!! I can't imagine why!
Oh, and if you rob someone, they cut off your right hand so you have to eat with the same hand you wipe your backside with...and then you get scheduled for your 'strokes'!!
Glad I don't do drugs. That would be a hell of a drug treatment program, wouldn't it.????[xx(][B)]