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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]
Myuran Sukumaran (17 April 1981 – 29 April 2015) was an Australian who was convicted in Indonesia of drug trafficking as a member of the Bali Nine.In 2005, Sukumaran was arrested in a room at the Melasti Hotel in Kuta, Bali with eight others.
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.
The five, who were serving life sentences, belong to a wider group of nine who were caught attempting to smuggle more than 8 kilograms (17.6 pounds) of heroin out of Bali’s international airport ...
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 ...
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]
Letter from death row by Mary Jane Veloso addressed to those she held responsible for her arrest and death sentence Veloso was scheduled to be executed on the maximum security prison island of Nusa Kambangan together with the Bali Nine duo from Australia, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran ; Brazilian Rodrigo Gularte ; an Indonesian; and four ...
In December 2005, it was reported that tensions were building between the Bali Nine drug mules and Sukumaran and Chan. [27] Several days later, lawyers acting for some members of the Bali Nine initially sought the support of the Director of Public Prosecutions to intervene and lay charges for conspiracy to import drugs, so that the nine could ...