Relatives and friends of Ang Kiem Soei, a Dutch national and one of the drug convicts to be executed Sunday at Nusakambangan prison are denied entry to the facility Friday. Photo credit: Jakarta Post
Relatives and friends of Ang Kiem Soei, a Dutch national and one of the drug convicts to be executed Sunday at Nusakambangan prison are denied entry to the facility Friday. Photo credit: Jakarta Post
Indonesia has executed by firing squad 38 year-old Nigerian Daniel Enemuo, four other foreigners and one local woman convicted of drugs offences.
They were executed on Sunday(Indonesia time), unleashing a diplomatic storm as Brazil and the Netherlands condemned the execution of their citizens.
The executions — the first under Indonesia’s new President Joko Widodo — were carried out by firing squad on foreigners hailing from Brazil, the Netherlands, Vietnam, Malawi and Nigeria.
Indonesia has tough anti-drugs laws and Widodo, who took office in October, has disappointed rights activists by voicing strong support for capital punishment despite his image as a reformist.
A spokesman for Brazilian President Dilma Roussef said she was “distressed and outraged” after Indonesia defied her repeated pleas and put to death Marco Archer Cardoso Moreira, who was convicted of smuggling cocaine into Indonesia in 2004.
“Using the death penalty, which is increasingly