Published December 28,2024
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France has despatched Indonesia an official request to switch a French demise row inmate imprisoned on drug costs for practically 20 years, a senior Indonesian minister instructed AFP on Saturday.
Serge Atlaoui, a 61-year-old welder, was arrested in 2005 in a medication manufacturing unit exterior Jakarta the place authorities accused him of being a “chemist”.
Indonesia has a few of the world’s hardest drug legal guidelines, together with the demise penalty for traffickers and has executed foreigners prior to now.
In current weeks, the Indonesian authorities has agreed to switch a collection of high-profile overseas detainees on demise row, together with a Filipina mother and the final 5 members of the so-called ‘Bali Nine’ drug ring.
“We have received a formal letter requesting the transfer of Serge Atlaoui,” senior Indonesian legislation and human rights minister Yusril Ihza Mahendra instructed AFP.
He added that the request can be mentioned in “early January” after the vacations.
Atlaoui has maintained his innocence, claiming that he was putting in equipment in what he thought was an acrylics plant.
He was initially sentenced to life in jail, however the Supreme Court in 2007 elevated the sentence to demise on enchantment.
Despite ongoing negotiations for prisoner transfers, the Indonesian authorities not too long ago signalled that it’s going to resume executions — on hiatus since 2016 — of drug convicts on demise row.
Source: www.anews.com.tr