Bali Nine pair get 72hr execution notice
Yahoo7 and Agencies
April 25, 2015, 9:13 pm
Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan have been told they may be executed as soon as Tuesday.
The pair was given notice on Saturday of Indonesia's intention to execute them in a minimum of 72 hours, during a meeting on Nusakambangan Island.
Julie Bishop fears the worst for the Bali Nine pair as embassy officials are summoned together.
Lawyer Julian McMahon returned with three self-portraits by Sukumaran.
One canvas was dated April 25 and signed "72 hours just started".
Photo: Australian death-row prisoners Myuran Sukumaran, right and Andrew Chan, left, stand in front of their cell. Source: AAP
Australian embassy officials were earlier called to a meeting in Cilacap, signalling the beginning of the process to execute the Australians for the Bali Nine plot ten years ago.
Indonesia must give at least 72 hours' notice of the executions.
Mr McMahon did not comment to reporters but showed Sukumaran's self-portraits, the others signed "Our new prison. A Bad Sleep Last Night" dated April 25 and "A strange day" dated April 24.
Families of foreign drug convicts set to be hauled before the firing squad in Indonesia issued desperate mercy pleas on Saturday, as France warned of "diplomatic consequences" if one of its nationals is executed.
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Consular officials and relatives were arriving at a town near Nusakambangan, the high-security prison island where Indonesian executions are carried out, and where all of the death row convicts are now congregated.
The foreigners – two from Australia, one each from Brazil, France and the Philippines, and four from Africa – have all lost appeals for clemency from President Joko Widodo, who argues that Indonesia is fighting a drugs emergency.
Photo: Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran are preparing to leave their Bali jail for Java's execution island: Photo: AAP
The sister of Australian drug trafficker Myuran Sukumaran issued an emotional plea for his life to be spared, appearing in a YouTube video clutching a photograph of her brother as a young boy wearing a school uniform.
"My brother made a mistake 10 years ago and he's paid for this mistake every single day since then," Brintha Sukumaran said.
"From the bottom of my heart, please President Widodo have mercy on my brother... change punishment for humanity."
Photo: The sister of Australian drug trafficker Myuran Sukumaran issued an emotional plea. Photo: AP
The family members of Sukumaran and Andrew Chan, the other Australian facing imminent execution, were also en route to Cilacap. The pair, sentenced to death in 2006, are the ringleaders of the so-called "Bali Nine" heroin-smuggling gang.
Three of the African traffickers are confirmed as being from Nigeria. However it is not clear whether the fourth holds Ghanaian or Nigerian nationality.
Jakarta had pledged to wait for all 10 prisoners in line for the firing squad to exhaust their legal avenues before naming what the attorney-general's spokesman Tony Spontana termed "D-day".
Indonesian Zainal Abidin's bid for a judicial review is expected to be determined on Monday.
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said the summoning of all embassies with nationals in the ten set for execution had her "deeply and profoundly" worried.
"I fear the worst," she told reporters in Brussels.
It wasn't too late for President Joko Widodo to show mercy to two rehabilitated men, she said. "He is the leader of a great nation, a dear and close friend of Australia," Ms Bishop said.
"We ask that he take into account our considerations."
In Gallipoli, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said efforts to save Chan, 31, and Sukumaran, 34, continued.
"I guess there's always hope while there's life but obviously these are late days," he said.
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