Post by Anja Nieser on Sept 10, 2006 8:28:03 GMT -5
Ministers to raise concerns over Bali death sentences
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Federal Justice Minister Chris Ellison says he and other government ministers will raise the issue of the death penalty for members of the Bali nine with the Indonesian Government.
Six members of the heroin smuggling ring are on death row after a decision by the Indonesian Supreme Court.
Senator Ellison says the Australian Government will do eveything it can to stop them being executed.
He has signalled on the ABC's Insiders program that Prime Minister John Howard will wait before making a clemency plea to Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
"I think we have to do that at the appropriate time and I am not going to pre-empt when that will be," he said.
"But certainly while there is a judicial process to be embarked on we have to be careful.
"But next month Minister Awaluddin and the Minister for Justice, my counterpart, will be visiting Canberra and I will be raising this with him as no doubt other Australian ministers will as well."
au.news.yahoo.com/060910/21/10h6h.html
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Federal Justice Minister Chris Ellison says he and other government ministers will raise the issue of the death penalty for members of the Bali nine with the Indonesian Government.
Six members of the heroin smuggling ring are on death row after a decision by the Indonesian Supreme Court.
Senator Ellison says the Australian Government will do eveything it can to stop them being executed.
He has signalled on the ABC's Insiders program that Prime Minister John Howard will wait before making a clemency plea to Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
"I think we have to do that at the appropriate time and I am not going to pre-empt when that will be," he said.
"But certainly while there is a judicial process to be embarked on we have to be careful.
"But next month Minister Awaluddin and the Minister for Justice, my counterpart, will be visiting Canberra and I will be raising this with him as no doubt other Australian ministers will as well."
au.news.yahoo.com/060910/21/10h6h.html