Indonesia has executed three Nigerian drug convicts by firing
squad, an official said. The Nigerians were put to death along
with one Indonesian on Thursday (after midnight Indonesian time), Noor Rachmad,
deputy attorney general for general crimes, told reporters.
He did not say why 10 other drug
convicts, who had been expected to face the firing squad, were not executed.
Indonesia on Thursday rejected mounting international pressure and
desperate pleas from relatives to halt the execution of 14 drug convicts it
sentenced to death by firing squad.
The group, including
foreigners from Nigeria, Pakistan, India and Zimbabwe as well as Indonesians,
had been placed in isolation on a prison island where Jakarta carries out
executions.
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