Tuesday 28 April 2015

Indonesia executes 8 prisoners, including 7 foreigners, convicted on Drug charges.

      Eight people have been executed by a firing squad in Indonesia convicted of drug charged despite an international outcry. The government had announced that nine convicted prisoners would be executed by a firing squad, but local media reported that, Finipinia Mary Jane Veloso was spared, for now. The eight people who were executed with firing squad were Indonesia Zainal Abidin, Austrialian Andrew Chan and  Myuran Sukumaran, Brazilian Rodrigo Gularte, Nigerian Sylvester Obiekwu Nwolise, Raheem Agbaje Salami and Okwudili Oyatanze , Ghanian Martin Anderson. Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso of the Philippines was spared after a woman who allegedly recruited her to act as a drug courier gave herself up to police in the Philippines on Tuesdays, Jakarta post reported.

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