donesia To Execute Nigerian And Zimbabwean This Year For Drug Trafficking

Indonesia plans to execute this year at least two foreign
convicts, one from Nigeria and another from Zimbabwe, the
attorney general said on Wednesday.
President Joko Widodo has pledged to increase the number
of executions this year and next as part of his crackdown
on drugs.
Asked if there were any foreigners on the list of convicts
to be executed, Attorney General Muhammad Prasetyo told
reporters: “We have foreigners, among them from Nigeria
and Zimbabwe.”
He did not elaborate on the crimes of which they were
convicted.
Prasetyo added that no convicts from the United States,
Europe or Australia were on the list to be executed this
year.
A 59-year-old British women, Lindsay Sandiford, was
sentenced to death after being convicted in 2013 of trying
to smuggle cocaine worth US$2.5 million into the country.
A Philippine maid, Mary Jane Veloso, got a last-minute
reprieve last year in response to a request from Manila
after an employment recruiter, whom Veloso had accused
of planting drugs in her luggage, gave herself up to police
in the Philippines.
Last year Indonesia executed 14 people, mostly foreign drug
traffickers. Prasetyo previously said at least 16 prisoners
would be executed this year and more than double that
number next year.