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Court Delays Decision on Death Row Convicts

Two Australian drug convicts on death row in Indonesia, Myuran Sukumuran and Andrew Chan, will not be executed this month after a court on Thursday postponed their appeal hearing against the rejection of a request for presidential clemency and they had been transferred to the prison island of Nusakambangan.

They are the member of Bali Nine who were arrested in 2005 as the ringleaders of a plot to smuggle heroin out of indonesia.

Their lawyer, Leonard Arfan, said that the hearing for those cases had been delayed until March 25 for submitting the evidence.

Judge Ujang Abdullah said that final arguments would be heard on April 1 a verdict would be announced soon because the attorney general would not set a date for the executions until of the legal processes are completed for all ten on death row.

Indonesia has harsh penalties for drug trafficking after a five years hiatus and five foreigners were among six people executed in January since President Jokowi took office in October.

Source: http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2015/03/20/court-delays-decision-death-row-convicts.html