Feb. 13
INDONESIA:
Death for 3 killers in Siak
A panel of judges at the Siak Sri Indrapura District Court in Siak, Riau,
sentenced 3 defendants in a mutilation case involving 7 victims - 6 of them
young boys - to death on Thursday.
The 3 defendants were Muhammad Delvi bin Basri Tanjung alias Buyung, 20,
Syopian bin Herman Ade, 26, and Dita Desmala Sari binti Suheri, 20.
The judges said they gave the 3 convicts maximum penalties because what they
had done was beyond the grasp of humanity.
"Based on the facts and witness testimonies in the trial, the suspects
deliberately committed premeditated murders as stipulated in articles 340, 55
(1) and 65 (1) of the Criminal Code," presiding judge Sorta Ria Neva said while
reading out the verdict on Thursday.
The judges said that during the trial, Delvi was revealed to be the mastermind
of the black-magic related murders. He was responsible for the killing of 3 of
the 7 victims: an 8-year-old and 2 10-year-olds, all from Perawang, the capital
of Tualang district in Siak.
The other 4 victims, a 5-year old, 2 9-year-olds and a 40-year-old man, were
murdered by Delvi and Syopian together in Bengkalis and Rokan Hilir regencies.
Before being strangled to death, all the victims were sexually molested by
Dita, who is Delvi's ex-wife. Delvi mutilated the victims' genitals after they
were dead. He soaked the severed body parts in water containing 7 different
flowers to bathe with in an effort to inherit his father's shamanism.
The trial also revealed that Delvi and Syopian, who had worked at a
slaughterhouse, skinned the body of victim Marjevan Gea and sold the flesh to
an eatery in Perawang.
Their brutality was stopped only after the police arrested Delvi at the house
of one of his relatives in Duri, Mandau district, Bengkalis regency on July 22,
2014.
The sentences were similar those demanded by prosecutor Zainul Arifin of the
Siak Regency Prosecutor's Office.
The panel of judges said there was nothing to give them a reason to make the
sentences more lenient.
The judges considered the repeated brutality, the deep suffering that they had
inflicted on the victims' families and the restlessness they had created in the
community as aggravating factors for Delvi.
After consulting with his lawyer Wan Arwin Tamimi, Delvi said he would file an
appeal. "If I may ask, don???t give me the death penalty, please. Life
imprisonment will be okay so I will have time to repent," Delvi said after the
trial.
Syopian and Dita, who were tried separately by the same panel of judges, also
received the death penalty with the same aggravating factors. Both convicts
also said they would appeal. Syopian's sentence was as demanded by the
prosecutor. Dita, however, was shocked by the verdict because the prosecutor
demanded life imprisonment for her.
The mother of 1 victim, Misna Anggraini, said she was satisfied with the
sentences.
"Justice is served, lives for lives. I am sure the families of other victims
also feel the same satisfaction about the death sentences," Misna said.
(source: Jakarta Post)
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Bali 9: Ben Quilty recalls emotional farewell to death row inmate Myuran
Sukumaran
Australian war artist Ben Quilty has described his goodbye to Bali 9 death row
inmate Myuran Sukumaran as the "most difficult thing" he has ever done.
In an emotional interview with the ABC's 7.30 program, Quilty revealed
Sukumaran was not sleeping because he was "considering in the middle of the
night there will be knock at the door" by prison staff there to transfer him
for execution.
Sukumaran and fellow Australian Andrew Chan were sentenced to death over a 2004
plot to smuggle heroin into Australia.
Indonesian authorities granted permission for the pair to be transferred from
prison ahead of execution on Thursday but a planned meeting to discuss
preparations was believed to be delayed on Friday.
Quilty has been Sukumaran's art teacher and friend for 4 years and has been
visiting him weekly for the past month, but says he understands his visit on
Thursday as his last.
"I just felt that, and I think Myuran knew as well, that time had run out ...
he always said be strong for me, and yesterday was the most difficult thing
that I've ever done - to leave him there. And I did say goodbye," Quilty said.
"I think he's pretty resolved for what is going to happen to him and it's
obvious they're making preparations inside the prison for him to move out. It
was a very hard thing to leave him there."
Quilty said Sukumaran's attention had turned to his family.
"Having a little sister and a little brother, whose lives have just been put on
hold for 10 years, and his mum, who are broken human beings because of what
he's done to them, and now, at this point, all of his time and energy ... is
put into trying to help them cope with what's coming," he said.
"He had a huge grin on his face [when he heard about the Julie Bishop and Tanya
Plibersek's speeches in Parliament] and he said to me: 'Benny, can you believe
this?'
"I said: 'Mate, I've been telling you that people care'. And in that position
it's very difficult to understand that people do care and to hear it come out
of Parliament was a powerful thing for both of them and their families.
"And I was a very proud Australian to see that happen."
Quilty reads Sukumaran's mail and while he says there is a "massive outpouring"
of support for the men, there are some letters that support the execution.
"I opened Myuran's mail and one of the letters said: 'I hope you die a slow
death'," he said.
"And that was a very confronting thing for me to read and Myuran's been coping
with those letters for many years now ... it makes you feel very alone.
"So, to hear from smart, intelligent, worldly women, that they are thinking of
him, filled with emotion ... it made their day. And it was a great thing for
them to hear those words."
'Criminals can be rehabilitated'
Deputy Opposition Leader Tanya Plibersek, whose husband was charged and
convicted of a similar crime to Chan and Sukumaran, delivered this personal
speech to Parliament.
Quilty said it was "devastating" that Sukumaran's work to rehabilitate himself
and others was not being considered.
"There's young men and women from all across the world who've done bad crimes
that are in that prison who will be lost without Myuran," he said.
"And that's very devastating. It's heartbreaking to see he worked so hard to
build this thing which will then just fall apart.
"I said goodbye to Myuran. I've been told I won't be allowed back into the
prison. I don't know what hope there is.
"For the families who've done nothing wrong, for the little sister and little
brother whose lives have been partly destroyed for 10 years, just let them
grieve.
"And they're grieving already before the man is dead. Let them have some
peace."
President 'against the constitution'
Meanwhile, a former Indonesian constitutional court judge has called for Chan
and Sukumaran to be spared from the firing squad.
Professor Laica Marzuki read out a statement intended for Indonesia's president
Joko Widodo.
"Mr president, you have walked to the wrong patch. You are wrong. You are
against the constitution," he said.
"[The] right to life is a human right ... that cannot be limited under any
circumstances."
Professor Marzuki sat on a constitutional court's case in 2007 that found if a
person was on death row for 10 years and was substantially rehabilitated, their
sentence could be commuted to life.
"Chan and Sukumaran should not be shot ... because [the] death penalty is
against the constitution," he said.
(source: ABC news)
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The Death Penalty: Australia, Indonesia and the Rule of Law
The death penalty may be a monstrous use of a state's power against the human
subject, but the campaign against its use by states who have abolished it can
prove inconsistent. While Australia sermonises against the evils of putting a
person to death, it stalls on the broader issue of how best to approach a
state, like, for instance, Indonesia, which uses capital punishment against
drug traffickers in the name of upholding the law.
Much of this has spiked with the vain efforts to secure clemency for Australian
citizens Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, both of whom are destined for the
firing squad for their role in organising the drug trafficking outfit that came
to be known as the Bali 9. The narratives on the so-called Bali 9 avoid with a
good deal of blindness Indonesian accounts on the drug trade - that it, too,
results in generous number of corpses. Australian MPs have deflected the issue,
insisting that, "Their crime, serious as it was, was intended to impact on
Australians in Australia, not Indonesia."
Indonesia's Attorney-General, H.M. Prasetyo, saw no distinction. "[The
executions] will send a message to members of drug syndicates - there is no
mercy for drug dealers and traffickers." To those who disagreed with the death
penalty, Prasetyo insisted they consider "that what we are doing is simply to
save our nation from the threat of narcotics" (Business Insider Australia, Feb
12).
The focus is, rather, on the cruelties that will be visited upon the two men.
"The idea that the government would," reflected Justice Lex Lasry, "take
individuals into the bush and shoot them is something I can never live with,
can never understand." [1] Pleas for clemency have been made by Prime Minister
Tony Abbott and Australia's minister for foreign affairs, Julie Bishop.
The President of Indonesia, the still freshly elected Joko Widodo, was in no
mood to accede to the requests. As part of his fresh approach to the issue of
combating the drugs trade, he has decided to bracket all and sundry. This is
domestically problematic, suggesting that Widodo might be overstepping the
mark. According to Ponti Azani, who represents both Chan and Sukumaran,
Indonesian law requires a consideration of each individual case.
What such responses suggest is that a good deal of exceptionalism is at play,
one that actually takes the battering ram to the very rule of law that is
deemed sacred in the Anglophone sphere. (It should be added that all states,
even those with the death penalty, play it, including Indonesia, in making
efforts to save their own citizens from the executioner in other countries.)
Australian citizens are deemed to be of a better mineral than locals, over men
and women whose passports should grant them a more compassionate hearing and
fate. Tim Mayfield, writing in The Drum (Jan 23), noted the response of Brazil
and the Netherlands in recalling their ambassadors to Indonesia as a protest
against the use of the death penalty against its citizens. Would Australia be
"willing to take the same stand"?
The Australian, a paper not exactly bound to the human rights canon, put forth
its own variant of the rule of law. "This newspaper's objection to the death
penalty is not targeted at Indonesia; it arises from the principle that the
protection of life, including from the power of the state, is the moral bedrock
of any worthy system of law" (Feb 12). That the paper objects to the power of
the state in that manner is a curious thing indeed, when one considers the
paper's endorsement of Australia's own variant of the gulag archipelago in
processing asylum seekers, some who remain in indefinite detention. How
attitudes to cruelty vary.
The other form of exceptionalism plays out in attacking Australia's own
authorities for alerting the Indonesian police about the activities of the Bali
9. Big time populist and radio shock jock, Alan Jones, after terming the death
penalty "barbaric" on the ABC's Q & A program, weighed into the role played by
the Australian Federal Police for their collaborative approach in this regard.
Had they made their own arrests and essentially been non-cooperative with their
Indonesian counterparts, the drug traffickers would have been spared the agony.
The Jones recipe in this regard is significant. Not only did he fume against
the Australian police, he felt that Canberra should have a greater, bossing
clout when it came to Jakarta. The white man's burden, tinged with charitable
reminder, reared the most ugly of heads. "Someone has to get on the phone to
this bloke, [Widodo] and simply say, 'Well, you do what you like, but we gave
you a billion dollars [in disaster relief aid] when you were hit by the [2004
Boxing Day] tsunami." [2]
There is nothing to be said for the use of the death penalty, a cruel,
mechanical application that finalises the irreversible. It is cruel, and it
sanctions murder. But if the rule of law and the sovereignty of a legal system
are matters to respect, then it can't be thrown out because the citizenship of
one country is deemed more exceptional than another.
(source: Opinion; Dr. Binoy Kampmark was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn
College, Cambridge. He lectures at RMIT University, Melbourne----Scoop news)
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150,000 sign Bali 9 mercy petition
Thousands of people have added their names to a campaign to save imprisoned
Australian drug smugglers Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran from an Indonesian
firing squad.
More than 150,000 people had signed the Mercy Campaign petition begging
Indonesia to spare the lives of Chan and Sukumaran as of Thursday - an increase
of more than 130,000 signatures in less than a month.
As Australia's Foreign Minister Julie Bishop made an emotional plea in federal
parliament on Thursday for Chan and Sukumaran to be saved from the death
penalty, organisers behind the Mercy Campaign petition confirmed the huge
increase in public support for the 2 men.
The petition asking Indonesian President Joko Widodo to show the men clemency
has gathered more than 150,000 signatures, lawyer and campaign co-founder
Matthew Goldberg told AAP.
Less than a month ago there were around 23,000 names signed in support of the
pair across 2 petitions.
Mr Goldberg urged more people to sign the petition asking for mercy.
"The campaign isn't coming to an end. We are pressing on for more support, more
numbers and more commitment to the movement for mercy," he said.
Mr Goldberg said plans were being made to present the petition to Indonesian
authorities.
Ms Bishop made a last ditch plea after Indonesia's confirmation that the 2 men
will be executed this month for their part in the so-called Bali 9
heroin-smuggling plan 10 years ago.
"This motion goes to the heart of what we believe will be a grave injustice
against 2 Australian citizens facing execution in Indonesia," she told
parliament on Thursday.
"Without doubt, Andrew and Myuran need to pay for their crimes with lengthy
jail sentences but they should not need to pay with their lives."
(source: Yahoo News)
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Bali 9 executions: Meet the 9 others on Indonesia's death row
Joining Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran in the next, imminent round of
execution by firing squad are 9 others - 4 Indonesians and 5 foreigners. Paul
Toohey asks: who are these death-row candidates and what are their crimes?
Martin Anderson, alias Belo, a Ghanaian national, has had it rougher than any
of the others. He was sentenced to death by a Jakarta court in June 2004 for
possessing 50 grams of heroin - worth, in current terms, about $2500. There
have been no appeals on his behalf except by Amnesty. Ghana has no consular
representation in Indonesia - its closest office is its high commission in
Malaysia. A Ghanaian consular officer in Malaysia said that to his knowledge,
no Ghanaian official had visited Anderson in prison since his arrest 11 years
ago. "We are still working on it," he said. The officer said he had been
approached by someone from Amnesty's Indonesian office about Anderson last
week. "But when he was arrested in 2004, it could be he may not be from Ghana,"
said the officer. "It could be he is a person from another country using a
false passport."
President Francois Hollande has been active - but ineffective - on behalf of
Serge Areski Atlaoui, 51, a French national and married father of 4, who had
his 2006 life sentence upgraded to death in 2007. Like all Indonesia's
death-row drug candidates, President Widodo rejected Atlaoui's clemency appeal
in January. He was convicted of running an ecstasy factory in the Banten
Province of West Java. He has always pleaded his innocence.
The only woman on the list, Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso, 30, a Filipino migrant
worker, has also spent the shortest time on death row. The Sleman District
Court sentenced her to death in October 2010 for bringing 2.6kg of heroin into
Jogjakarta from Malaysia earlier the same year. According to reports from
Manila, President Benigno Aquino III did not raise Veloso's case during
President Joko Widodo's just-concluded state visit to the Philippines, where
both leaders agreed to strengthen efforts in the war on drugs. Veloso, who
comes from a poor rural family, was a courier for a major international
syndicate.
When Marco Archer was shot dead after midnight on January 18, in the 1st
tranche of 2015 executions, it spelled disaster for Rodrigo Gularte, a fellow
Brazilian national on death row. Gularte was sentenced to death in 2005 after
being caught smuggling 19kg of heroin through the international airport in
Banten province. Brazilian President Dilma Roussell recalled her ambassador to
Indonesia after Archer's death. He has since returned to Jakarta to continue
what the Brazilian Embassy in Canberra says have been "dozens of efforts" on
behalf of both men.
3 Indonesian men, Syofial (alias Iyen bin Azwar), Harun bin Ajis and Sargawi
(alias Ali bin Sanusi), are the only people among the 11 who will die for non
drug-related crimes. According to Amnesty International and other reports, they
were sentenced to death in the Bangko District Court in November 2001 for the
premeditated murder (accompanied by rape and theft) of 7 family members of an
indigenous Kubu tribe in Jambi Province, on the east coast of Sumatra.
The other Indonesian in the group, Zainal Abidin, from Palembang in south
Sumatra, had his 2001 life sentence upgraded that same year to death for his
role in smuggling 58.7kg of marijuana on the well-travelled Aceh-to-Java dope
smuggling route. Indonesian authorities at the time of his arrest were cracking
down on the marijuana trade, believing the proceeds from sales were being used
to fund the Free Aceh Movement of north Sumatra.
Raheem Agbaje Salami, a Nigerian (who was initially wrongly said to have come
from Spain) spent 5 years believing that he would one day be released. He had
been sentenced, in 1999, to a life term by the Surabaya District Court in East
Java for bringing 5.3kg of heroin through Surabaya airport. In 2006, however,
the Supreme Court His upgraded his sentence to death. There has been little
reporting of his approaching execution in mainstream Nigerian media, but
Nigeria summoned Indonesia's high commissioner to express "huge disappointment"
after Indonesia wrongly said 2 Nigerians had been shot in the 1st round of
executions in January. It turned out only 1 Nigerian, Daniel Enemuo, was
executed.
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Julie Bishop says executing Bali 9 pair might hurt Australian tourism to
Indonesia ---- Foreign minister says Australians will demonstrate 'deep
disapproval' of Indonesia's actions, including by making decisions about their
holidays
Julie Bishop has warned tourism to Bali could be threatened if Indonesia goes
ahead with the execution of 2 Australian drug smugglers.
Permission has been granted for Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran to be
transferred from their Bali prison for their execution, though a date is yet to
be officially set.
A day after she pleaded for clemency in parliament, the foreign minister said
Australians could be turned off holidaying in Bali if Indonesia went through
with the execution.
"I think the Australian people will demonstrate their deep disapproval of this
action, including by making decisions about where they wish to holiday," she
told Fairfax radio on Friday.
Her comments were also echoed by former high court judge, Michael Kirby, who
said it was "sadly" likely the case Australians would reconsider their holiday
destinations.
Bishop said the government would leave no stone unturned in its bid to secure a
stay on the Bali Nine members' executions.
"Executing these 2 young men will not solve the drug scourge in Indonesia," she
said.
"It's a very tense situation."
Kirby said a dip in tourism was only one potential consequence of Indonesia
executing the 2 Australians.
"Right to the very end I would expect the Australian government, with the
support of the opposition and Australian people, will be making
representations," he said on Sky News.
"In that respect we will be following the endeavors that Indonesia follows in
respect of its citizens when they are facing death overseas."
Kirby said there was still a question over whether the death penalty was a
deterrent for crime and emphasised the heroin was being smuggled out of
Indonesia, not in to Indonesia.
"The important thing in this case this was not Indonesian drug dealing, it was
Australian drug dealing, these were Australians who are getting on to an
Australian plane to bring them back to Australia with Indonesian drugs," he
said.
When asked if he thought Bishop should do a last minute "mercy dash" to
Indonesia, Kirby responded that he thought "additional steps" would be taken.
As the pair's lawyers make a last ditch effort to stop the execution through
the courts, Momock Bambang Samiarso, head of Bali provincial prosecutors, said
a meeting on Thursday afternoon confirmed the pair would be transferred away
from Bali for execution.
Sukumaran and Chan were sentenced to death for their part in an attempt to
smuggle more than 8kg of heroin in 2005. Seven other Australians are in jail in
Indonesia for their roles in the plot.
Prosecutors are trying to keep the transfer a secret, and the official avoided
confirming the men would be taken to Nusakambangan, a prison island off central
Java.
"We ask it to be as soon as possible," Samiarso said.
The date of the transfer was due to be confirmed on Friday. Chan, Sukumaran and
their families will be given 72 hours' notice of the date of execution.
Indonesian lawyer Todung Mulya Lubis said on Wednesday the legal team would go
to an administrative court to argue Indonesian president Joko Widodo could not
make a sweeping rejection of clemency appeals based on his declared "drug
emergency" in the country, but must assess each individually.
Australia has made repeated attempts to have the execution stayed. On Friday
the education minister, Christopher Pyne, said the government had done
"absolutely everything" it could.
"The problem with the way Indonesians see this matter is that they have 5
million ... drug addicts in Indonesia, they take a very, very firm line on drug
smuggling," he told Channel 9.
Pyne said that while the government had done "all it can" for the pair, "at the
end of the day Indonesia is a sovereign nation."
"They're their laws, we don't support them, we don't agree with them," he said.
"It'll be a great tragedy if those 2 young men face the death penalty."
Foreign minister Julie Bishop and Labor's foreign affairs spokeswoman, Tanya
Plibersek, made heartfelt pleas for clemency in parliament on Thursday.
Bishop said the Sydney pair's attempt to smuggle more than 8kg of heroin was a
grave crime that deserved punishment. But they didn't deserve to pay with their
lives.
"Both men are deeply, sincerely remorseful for their actions," Bishop said.
"Both men have made extraordinary efforts to rehabilitate."
Plibersek followed with an equally powerful argument against the pair's
executions.
She reflected on her husband Michael Coutts-Trotter's drug conviction 30 years
ago, and what a loss it would have been if he was punished with death.
"They would have missed out on a man who spent the rest of his life making
amends for the crime that he committed," she said.
The Indonesian foreign minister Retno Marsudi said she had received letters
from both women and phone calls from the minister. Her replies were clear and
consistent, she said.
"I have told Julie that this is not against a country, this is not against
nationals of a certain country, but this is against a crime, against an
extraordinary crime," she told reporters in Jakarta.
"We will keep on communicating, explaining, in consistent language like that."
The families of Chan and Sukumaran have continued visiting them daily in
prison. The artist Ben Quilty and Victorian supreme court judge Lex Lasry
joined them on Thursday.
Only Widodo can save the men from execution, but he gave a defiant vow this
week not to succumb to outside pressure on the death penalty for drug felons.
In her statement, Bishop said besides more than 55 ministerial and prime
ministerial representations for the men, high-profile Australians had made
"discreet overtures to their influential Indonesian contacts."
(source for both: news.com.au)
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Govt threatens boycott over executions
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has struck a blow at Indonesia's crucial tourism
industry in a continuing effort to save the lives of 2 Australian citizens.
The Foreign Minister says she has been "overwhelmed" with messages of support
from Australians who may shun the nation if the execution of Andrew Chan and
Myuran Sukumaran goes ahead.
"I think the Australian people will demonstrate their deep disapproval of this
action, including by making decisions about where they wish to holiday," she
said.
The government has ramped up its rhetoric in recent days in a last ditch
attempt to prevent the killing of Chan and Sukumaran, who have been convicted
of drug charges.
Both Ms Bishop and shadow foreign minister Tanya Plibersek spoke passionately
in Parliament on Thursday calling on Indonesia to back down.
Authorities in Indonesia are finalising plans to move the men from Bali to
their place of execution on a prison island off Java.
"I've been overwhelmed with emails and text messages, I know that people have
been staging vigils and rallies," Ms Bishop said.
"We're asking for clemency, we're asking for mercy for 2 Australian citizens
who have been rehabilitated."
The men have lost an appeal and a judicial review of their death sentences and
have been denied clemency by the Indonesian president. Their legal team had
attempted a 2nd judicial review, which was not accepted. A rare legal challenge
to an administrative court against the Indonesian president's refusal to grant
them pardons is pending.
Chan and Sukumaran face execution by firing squad. Only 3 bullets will be fired
at each of the men, increasing the likelihood that the men will not die
instantly.
"Executions are not clean killings," their Australian lawyer, Julian McMahon,
told AAP in January.
"If the prisoner isn't dead straight away, the commanding officer is meant to
walk up and then put a bullet in the head."
Education Minister Christopher Pyne has said that the government, with the help
of Labor, has done "absolutely everything" it could to rescue the men.
"It'll be a great tragedy if those 2 young men face the death penalty," Mr
Pyne.
(source: The New Daily)
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Rodrigo Gularte - Facing the firing squad while mentally ill
The plight of Rodrigo Gularte has not been widely reported in our media; he is
one of the eleven individuals named by the Attorney General of Indonesia as
next to face the firing squad. He was this week formally diagnosed with
'schizophrenia and bipolar disorder with psychotic features' and requires
immediate treatment. To execute him now would go against international law.
Rodrigo, 43, a Brazilian national, grew up in Parana in Southern Brazil. He
regularly spent time on the family farm in Paraguay during his childhood. He
was convicted of attempting to smuggle 6 kilograms of cocaine into Jakarta in
July 2004. The cocaine was discovered inside 8 surfboards. Tangerang District
Court sentenced Rodrigo to death in February 2005.
In 2014, the Gularte family, with the assistance of the Brazilian Embassy,
requested a medical report on Rodrigo's condition. Rodrigo was assessed by
Professor Haji Sowadi and a team of 5 doctors this week. A medical report
released yesterday states that Rodrigo has a diagnosis of 'schizophrenia and
bipolar disorder with psychotic features.' The report recommends that Rodrigo
'immediately receive intensive psychiatric treatment with medications in a
hospital.' It has been reported that Rodrigo has been prescribed Risperdal, an
anti-psychotic medication, by a UN doctor in the past but he has refused to
take it as he believes it to be poison.
Rodrigo's lawyer has confirmed that Rodrigo has been unable to communicate with
his legal team. Rodrigo's mother has reported that when she visited her son
late last year, he was incoherent and had lost around 15 pounds in weight. Tony
Spontana, a spokesman for the Attorney General of Indonesia, had, prior to the
release of the medical report, confirmed that 'the sentence can be met only
after the [individual's] recovery.' As of yet, there has been no response from
the Indonesian Government in respect of the medical report.
International law prohibits the execution of individuals with mental or
intellectual disabilities. This applies not only in cases where the disability
was present when the crime was committed but also in cases where the disability
developed after sentencing.
We urgently call on the Indonesian Government to halt the executions of all the
individuals named by the Attorney General as next to face the firing squad. We
urge the Indonesian Government to comply with international law by acting on
the medical recommendation to transfer Rodrigo Gularte to an appropriate
psychiatric facility for the urgent and intensive treatment he requires.
(source: reprieve.org)
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