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The Bali Nine were a group of nine Australians convicted for attempting to smuggle 8.3 kg (18 lb) of heroin out of Indonesia in April 2005. The heroin was valued at around A$ 4 million and was bound for Australia. [3] Ringleaders Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran were sentenced to death and executed on 29 April 2015. [4]
The remaining five Australians from the infamous “Bali Nine” drug gang are “relieved and happy” to be home after Canberra struck a deal with Jakarta to end their two decades of imprisonment.
The men were among nine people arrested in 2005 trying to smuggle more than 8 kg (18 pounds) of heroin out of the Indonesian resort island of Bali. "These Australians served more than 19 years in ...
Bali Nine refers to a drug smuggling ring convicted for trying to smuggle 8.3 kilograms of heroin from the Indonesian resort island of Bali to Australia in 2005 (EPA) ...
Lawyers acting for Stephens, one of the Bali Nine, claimed that the fairness of his trial was in jeopardy following comments made in the media by Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda that Australians should be prepared for members of the Bali Nine to receive a death sentence, if found guilty. [21]
On 24 January 2006, prosecutors called for the death penalty to be handed down on Sukumaran, the first time a demand of death was put forward by prosecutors for any of the Bali Nine. Days later, prosecutors advanced the same call followed for Chan. Prosecutors told a Bali court there was no reason to show any leniency towards Sukumaran because ...
The five remaining members of the "Bali Nine" drug ring returned to Australia the same month. There are currently 90 foreigners still on death row in the country, including one woman, according to ...
Though the death penalty existed as a punishment from the inception of the Republic of Indonesia, the first judicial execution did not take place until 1973. [4] The first civilian execution in Indonesia was performed in 1978. Oesin Bestari, a goat butcher from Mojokerto, was the first criminal condemned to death in post-independence Indonesia.