Twenty-one Nigerians are among the 121 prisoners on death row in Indonesia.Thirty of the prisoners will be executed before the end of 2017. Eighteen of them will be executed after July 6, the Eid el-Fitr Muslim holiday, which ends the holy month of Ramadan.
Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Senior Special Assistant on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora to President Muhammadu Buhari, disclosed this to Independent on Monday.
Bambang Waluyo, Indonesian Deputy Attorney General, announced the execution schedule during a parliamentary hearing in Jakarta. The Justice Ministry said those on death row in Indonesia are mostly convicted of drug-related crimes and that at least 35 of them are foreigners.
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