Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta correspondent | November 03, 2008
THE Bali bombers have won a small victory in their attempts to delay their impending executions, with Denpasar District Court accepting an application to have the Supreme Court reconsider their death sentences.
However the reprieve could be short lived, with the higher court already adamant it has no further interest in the matter.
Despite incessant rumours of the impending executions of Amrozi bin Nurhasyim, Ali Ghufron alias Mukhlas and Abdul Azis alias Imam Samudra, delay after delay has hit the process.
Family members of all three men are waiting at the southern central Java port town of Cilacap for permission to visit the trio on death row.
However that permission had still not been given by midday, and the visitors and the men's lawyers said they would return home if it was still not given by the end of the afternoon.
Tomorrow is thought unlikely to be an appropriate execution date, with a major regional election being carried out for the east Java governor's position.
Amrozi and Mukhlas are both from the small village of Tenggulun in east Java, and village head Abu Sholeh says he will be extremely inconvenienced if he is expected to run the polling booth around the chaos of the men's funerals.
The village itself has filled with journalists, who are being received with open arms by residents. Abu Sholeh has even gone to some lengths to procure accommodation for visiting reporters.
Wednesday is also likely to be a difficult date for Indonesia's most notorious terrorists to be executed, given it will be the final day of a five-day visit by Prince Charles.
Amrozi's and Mukhlas's mother, Tariyem, is remaining largely behind closed doors in her modest home, emerging only briefly today to express her happiness that the executions appeared yet again to have been put off.
The major Jawa Pos newspaper even speculated this morning that, despite Attorney General Hendarman Supandji's pronouncement more than two weeks ago that he expected the executions to take place "in early November", the wait for the three men to die could be much longer.
THE Bali bombers have won a small victory in their attempts to delay their impending executions, with Denpasar District Court accepting an application to have the Supreme Court reconsider their death sentences.
However the reprieve could be short lived, with the higher court already adamant it has no further interest in the matter.
Despite incessant rumours of the impending executions of Amrozi bin Nurhasyim, Ali Ghufron alias Mukhlas and Abdul Azis alias Imam Samudra, delay after delay has hit the process.
Family members of all three men are waiting at the southern central Java port town of Cilacap for permission to visit the trio on death row.
However that permission had still not been given by midday, and the visitors and the men's lawyers said they would return home if it was still not given by the end of the afternoon.
Tomorrow is thought unlikely to be an appropriate execution date, with a major regional election being carried out for the east Java governor's position.
Amrozi and Mukhlas are both from the small village of Tenggulun in east Java, and village head Abu Sholeh says he will be extremely inconvenienced if he is expected to run the polling booth around the chaos of the men's funerals.
The village itself has filled with journalists, who are being received with open arms by residents. Abu Sholeh has even gone to some lengths to procure accommodation for visiting reporters.
Wednesday is also likely to be a difficult date for Indonesia's most notorious terrorists to be executed, given it will be the final day of a five-day visit by Prince Charles.
Amrozi's and Mukhlas's mother, Tariyem, is remaining largely behind closed doors in her modest home, emerging only briefly today to express her happiness that the executions appeared yet again to have been put off.
The major Jawa Pos newspaper even speculated this morning that, despite Attorney General Hendarman Supandji's pronouncement more than two weeks ago that he expected the executions to take place "in early November", the wait for the three men to die could be much longer.
Source: The Australian
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