Australian bishop calls for mercy for two drug-runners
Campaign: a girl holds stickers calling for clemency
for Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, in Bali, on
Saturday
Campaign: a girl holds stickers calling for clemency
for Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, in Bali, on
Saturday
AN AUSTRALIAN bishop has called on the Indonesian government to
show mercy to two Australians sentenced to death for the part that
they played as ringleaders of a drug-running group known as the
Bali Nine.
The Rt Revd Philip Huggins, a regional bishop in Melbourne, made
the plea as the Indonesian Attorney-General, H. M. Prasetyo,
confirmed that Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran would be in the
next group of prisoners to be executed by firing squad. This comes
despite the men's lawyers' lodging an application for a second
judicial review of their sentence. An earlier review was
unsuccessful.
The plight of the two men, who have been in jail for almost ten
years, has been headline news in the Australia since their appeals
for clemency were rejected.
"The Indonesian authorities have obviously facilitated, by all
accounts, the remarkable rehabilitation of the two Australian
former drug-traffickers," Bishop Huggins said. "Their own response
to opportunities for rehabilitation further underscores the cruel
folly of execution."
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