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Fri, 11/07/2008 - 18:23
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MUJAHEDIN COUNCIL PROTESTS PLAN TO EXECUTE AMROZI ET AL
Jakarta, Nov 7 (ANTARA) - Ten members of the Indonesian Mujahedin Council (MMI) staged a rally outside the Attorney General's Office here on Friday to object to the execution of the Bali bombing death-row convicts.
Clad in white, the demonstrators unfurled a number of banners denouncing the imminent execution of the Bali bombers.
The decision to execute Amrozi, Imam Samudra and Ali Ghufron must be rejected because there was not enough evidence they were the perpetrators of the Bali bombings on October 12, 2002, the rally's coordinator, Sayid Hamidan, said.
Sayid said the Bali bombing attack consisted of two blasts so there was a likelihood that people other than Amrozi et al were involved in it.
He said the Bali bombings were the work of a number of parties including foreign intelligence agencies.
On Thursday, hundreds of people who claimed to be members of the Muslims Forum (FUI) also staged a rally outside the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) building to reject the execution of the Bali bombers.
The forum urged the commission to declare the execution as a manifestation of injustice and a form of abuse of human rights.
They said the human rights abuse included the authorities' refusal to let the death-row victims' families and defense lawyers meet them at the Nusakambangan correctional facility ahead of their execution.
The Denpasar District Court sentenced Amrozi et al to death in September 2003 after finding them guilty of planning and perpetrating the October 2002 Bali bombings which killed 202 people and injured 350 others.
Last month, the Constitutional Court (MK) had turned down Amrozi et al`s request to conduct a judicial review on Law No.2/PNPS/1964 on Procedures to Implement the Death Penalty.
Amrozi et al had filed a request for a judicial review of the law because they believed execution by a firing squad as mandated by Law No. 2/PNPS/1964 was against their constitutional right not to be tortured.
The court concluded the convicts' arguments were unreasonable and therefore their request for a judicial review of the law was denied.
The Attorney General's Office recently announced the execution of the convicts would be done early in November in Nusakambangan, Cilacap, Central Java, where the convicts are being held.
Clad in white, the demonstrators unfurled a number of banners denouncing the imminent execution of the Bali bombers.
The decision to execute Amrozi, Imam Samudra and Ali Ghufron must be rejected because there was not enough evidence they were the perpetrators of the Bali bombings on October 12, 2002, the rally's coordinator, Sayid Hamidan, said.
Sayid said the Bali bombing attack consisted of two blasts so there was a likelihood that people other than Amrozi et al were involved in it.
He said the Bali bombings were the work of a number of parties including foreign intelligence agencies.
On Thursday, hundreds of people who claimed to be members of the Muslims Forum (FUI) also staged a rally outside the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) building to reject the execution of the Bali bombers.
The forum urged the commission to declare the execution as a manifestation of injustice and a form of abuse of human rights.
They said the human rights abuse included the authorities' refusal to let the death-row victims' families and defense lawyers meet them at the Nusakambangan correctional facility ahead of their execution.
The Denpasar District Court sentenced Amrozi et al to death in September 2003 after finding them guilty of planning and perpetrating the October 2002 Bali bombings which killed 202 people and injured 350 others.
Last month, the Constitutional Court (MK) had turned down Amrozi et al`s request to conduct a judicial review on Law No.2/PNPS/1964 on Procedures to Implement the Death Penalty.
Amrozi et al had filed a request for a judicial review of the law because they believed execution by a firing squad as mandated by Law No. 2/PNPS/1964 was against their constitutional right not to be tortured.
The court concluded the convicts' arguments were unreasonable and therefore their request for a judicial review of the law was denied.
The Attorney General's Office recently announced the execution of the convicts would be done early in November in Nusakambangan, Cilacap, Central Java, where the convicts are being held.
