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Indonesia confirms to execute 9 drug convicts

Xinhua, April 29, 2015 Adjust font size:

Indonesia's Attorney General Muhammad Prasetyo confirmed on Tuesday that execution against nine drug convicts including eight foreigners would be conducted at midnight or at earliest on Wednesday.

"The execution of nine convicts will be carried out later at midnight tonight, or around midnight," Prasetyo told reporters in his office here.

Indonesia has prepared the execution process against the nine convicts in the last few days. The total isolation had been imposed by the apparatus at 8:00 p.m. Tuesday, ended the time for the families of those convicts to be with them for the last time to live in the world.

The nine convicts to be executed later at midnight were Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran (Australia), Martin Anderson, Sylvester Obieke Nwolise, Okwudili Oyatanzel and Raheem Agbaje Salami ( Nigeria), Rodrigo Gularte (Brazil), Zainal Abidin (Indonesia) and Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso (The Philippines).

Nine coffins arrived at Nusakambangan prison Tuesday night.

All of those nine convicts have already placed in isolation cells located in high-security prison of Nusakambangan in Cilacap, Central Java, waiting for the execution that would be conducted by firing squads. Endi