Feb. 11
AUSTRALIA/INDONESIA:
Bishop accuses Indonesia of death penalty 'double standard'
Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop has called on Indonesia to show the same
mercy to the Bali 9 pair awaiting execution that it wants for its own citizens
overseas.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo has instructed that "optimum protection" be
offered to 229 Indonesian citizens sentenced to death overseas, including
accused drug felons, in countries such as Malaysia and Saudi Arabia, Fairfax
Media reports.
This included hiring lawyers to defend them, holding meetings with family
members and seeking amnesty from the heads of states or victims' families.
"Australia's efforts to seek a stay of execution and a reconsideration of the
clemency bids of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran are consistent with the
Indonesian government's own efforts on behalf of its death row prisoners
overseas," Ms Bishop said.
"I call on the Indonesian government to offer the same mercy to Australian
citizens it is pursuing for its own nationals, including those convicted of
drug offences."
Bishop will introduce a parliamentary motion on the issue today.
(source: 9news.com.au)
KUWAIT:
Kuwait court upholds death penalty on cop who raped Filipino maid
Kuwait's appeals court on Wednesday upheld the death sentence of a policeman
for "abducting, raping and attempting to murder" a Filipino woman. The lower
court condemned the policeman, identified only by the initials Y.M, to death
last June. He can still challenge the ruling before the supreme court.
The policeman had arrested the woman after finding that her residence permit
had expired, according to the court papers.
He took her to a deserted area where he stabbed her in the neck and raped her
after she refused to have sex with him.
The policeman left her for dead in a pool of blood, but returned and stabbed
her several more times when she moved.
The Filipino survived and crawled to a nearby road where a passerby took her to
hospital.
About 180,000 Filipinos, many of them women employed as domestic helpers, work
and live in oil-rich Kuwait, making up the 4th largest foreign community in the
Gulf emirate.
(source: Arab News)
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