DEATH PENALTY_ Bali Nine pair will be executed: diplomat

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Bali Nine pair will be executed: diplomat

Yahoo7 and Agencies
February 8, 2015, 4:05 pm

Indonesia's ambassador has played down hopes of a new appeal for death row Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran.

Nadjib Riphat Kesoema said the pair's legal fight had reached "the highest level".

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Sydney's archbishop and grand mufti want Indonesia to spare the lives of two of the Bali Nine.

"Indonesia has notified the government of Australia that we will execute these two gentleman," he told reporters in Canberra on Sunday.

The lawyer who represented the two Australians when they were first sentenced to death alleges "interference" in the case resulted in them getting the death sentence instead of life in jail.

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Muhammad Rifan has hinted at revelations that could aid a new appeal after meeting his former clients, who face execution before the end of February.

Chan, 31, and Sukumaran, 33, are set to face the firing squad within weeks for their roles in the 2005 Bali Nine heroin smuggling plot.

Final pleas for clemency

High profile religious leaders have pleaded for mercy for Bali Nine pair Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, who are facing imminent execution in Indonesia.

Sydney Archbishop Anthony Fisher and Grand Mufti Ibrahim Abu Mohammad on Sunday asked Indonesian President Joko Widodo to spare the men and allow them to "make reparation to the communities they betrayed by their crimes".

"Our request today is for clemency or a commuted sentence for Andrew and Myuran so as to allow them to be further rehabilitated and to execute would prematurely end these lives, robbing both of them and our communities of the opportunity for ongoing repentance and rehabilitation," the pair said in a statement to journalists.

Archbishop Fisher said neither he nor the Grand Mufti questioned the men's guilt, the seriousness of their crime or the legitimacy of the verdicts against them.

Dr Mohammad said the Sydney men have had more than a decade to think about their crime, and have shown remorse and repentance for their role in attempting to smuggle 8.3kg of heroin into Australia.

"By all accounts Andrew and Myuran have come to appreciate clearly the gravity of their crimes," the Grand Mufti said.

"These Sydney-born men have had a long time to think about what they have done while in Kerobakan prison - and on death row."

He said he is considering travelling to Indonesia to meet with religious leaders in the coming days to discuss the imminent execution.

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Indonesia's ambassador has said nothing can be done to save Andrew and Myuran from death row. Photo: AAP

Archbishop Fisher said the role of the Australian Federal Police in the Bali Nine arrest, and Sunday's report in Fairfax newspapers that the men's lawyer, Mohamad Rifan, wants to introduce new evidence in a bid to spare the men "are extra reasons for us to take it seriously".

President Joko Widodo argues Indonesia is in the grips of a drug crisis that needs the "shock therapy" of the death penalty.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott has urged Mr Joko to show mercy to the two "well and truly reformed" Australians. Bali court officials last month confirmed presidential clemency had been denied to Chan, two weeks after his fellow Bali Nine ringleader, Sukumaran, received the same news.

The announcement all but extinguished their last hope of being spared the death penalty for the 2005 heroin trafficking plot.

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