This week's execution of three militants convicted over the 2002 Bali bombings will be delayed, as the men will file an appeal, a spokesman for Indonesia's attorney general said on Monday.
JAKARTA: This week's execution of three militants convicted over the 2002 Bali bombings will be delayed, as the men will file an appeal, a spokesman for Indonesia's attorney general said on Monday.
Amrozi, Ali Ghufron and Imam Samudra were to be shot by a squad on Tuesday for their key roles in the attacks that killed 202 people and were blamed on Al Qaeda linked Jemaah Islamiyah.
"It is better to delay the execution as we have to respect the legal rights of the defendants to file a judicial review appeal, and the process is in motion," spokesman Wayan Pasek Suartha said.
Lawyer Qadhar Faisal said court officials were present at a meeting with prisoners last week when they decided to file the appeal, meaning the procedure was in progress and the execution could not go ahead.
The appeal is being based on an argument that the constitutional court has ruled that since their trial, the terror laws introduced after the bombings, under which they were convicted, could not be used retroactively.
The men are being held at the island jail of Nusu Kambangan, off the south coast of Central Java in Cilacap district.
Faisal said on Monday that the request for the review that the trio's last avenue of appeal would be submitted to the Cilacap district court on Wednesday.
Prosecutors had sent a letter to the families of the convicts notifying them of the execution date, set for Tuesday, provided they opted to waive their right to request a case review.
More than 30 Indonesians were convicted over the 2002 attacks, which targeted western holidaymakers and opened a Southeast Asian front in the so-called ‘war on terror’ by the United States and its allies.
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