Indonesia's executions: Drugs diplomacy in a diplomatic crisis?
In 2007 the Indonesian constitutional court cited the international drug trafficking treaty of 1988 to justify such killings
Thursday, February 26, 2015
All diplomatic efforts earlier this month to save Brazilian and Dutch citizens from execution in Indonesia failed. Both were executed by firing squad. The harrowing final hours of Marco Archer Cardoso Moreira have since been revealed. Australia has been told that two of its citizens face imminent execution and nationals of the United Kingdom and elsewhere must now be losing hope. Indonesian Attorney General Muhammad Prasetyo has said that 'nothing whatsoever' will stop the executions.