Australians to leave Bali for execution tomorrow

Tuesday, July 3, 2018

Bali nine duo Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran. Photo: AFPAndrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran will be transferred to the execution island of Nusakambangan around noon on Wednesday, it has been announced.
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The transfer will use two military transport planes, he said. One will contain the Australians and their guards. The other will contain another contingent of security personnel.

He said the transfer would occur on Wednesday “siang”, or day. The phrase usually denotes a time between 10am and 3pm, but sources said the men would be removed from Kerobokan prison at close to noon.



The men will be given 72 hours notice before they are killed. They will be able to see their families, lawyers and a religious counsellor while on Nusakambangan, an island with a prison complex in Central Java.

The transfer will occur before the lawyers for the duo will be able to lodge an appeal against the refusal of Indonesian president Joko Widodo to grant clemency to the men, part of a blanket rejection of all 64 drug offenders on death row. Six of them have already been killed in January.







There were also still prisoners who needed to be transported from Madiun and Yogyakarta. “After the evacuation we will determine the time of the execution,” Mr Prasetyo said. He confirmed that Chan and Sukumaran would be transferred to Cilacap, the port near Nusakambangan, by plane.

