Indonesia has obtained an official request from France to switch a French demise row inmate imprisoned on medicine fees since 2005, a senior Indonesian minister stated on Saturday.
“We’ve obtained a proper letter requesting the switch of Serge Atlaoui on 19 December 2024. The letter was despatched on behalf of the French minister of justice,” senior Indonesian regulation and human rights minister Yusril Ihza Mahendra advised Agence France-Presse.
He added that the request can be mentioned in “early January” after the vacations.
Serge Atlaoui, a 61-year-old welder, was arrested in 2005 in a medication manufacturing facility outdoors Jakarta the place authorities accused him of being a “chemist”.
In current weeks, the Indonesian authorities has agreed to switch a sequence of high-profile international detainees on demise row, together with Mary Jane Veloso, a Filipina home helper, and the final 5 members of the so-called “Bali 9” drug ring, elevating hopes for others who stay in jail.
Studies started to emerge final month that France had requested the repatriation of Atlaoui, who was on account of be executed alongside eight different drug offenders in 2015 however received a brief reprieve after Paris stepped up stress. Indonesian authorities agreed to let an excellent attraction run its course.
The daddy of 4 has maintained his innocence, claiming that he was putting in equipment in what he thought was an acrylics plant.
He was initially sentenced to life in jail, however the supreme court docket in 2007 elevated the sentence to demise on attraction.
Indonesia has a few of the world’s hardest drug legal guidelines, together with the demise penalty for traffickers, and has executed foreigners previously.
Regardless of ongoing negotiations for prisoner transfers, the Indonesian authorities lately signalled that it’ll resume executions – on hiatus since 2016 – of drug convicts on demise row.
The French embassy in Jakarta declined AFP’s request for remark.
With Agence France-Presse
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