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Bali bombers' executions stayed
SMILING assassin Amrozi and two other Bali bombers who were due to be executed tomorrow morning have been given a last-minute stay on their death sentences. Amrozi bin Nurhasyim, Imam Samudra and Ali Gufron reportedly want to file a final appeal.

"We have to respect the rights of the convicts because they have informed us that they want to file a final appeal," said the Indonesian attorney-general's spokesman I Wayan Pasek Suarta. "The execution cannot be carried out."
Time for the Aussie SBS to take on a mission.
It is unclear if the appeals have been officially lodged, but lawyers for the men said recently that the executions should be delayed and the proceedings allowed because prison officials had witnessed the men requesting case reviews. "An official from the Cilicap district court was present. So the execution can't be carried out legally, because we are in the process of appealing," Qadhar Faisal, one of several lawyers representing the men, said last week.

The men were scehduled to face a firing squad at dawn tomorrow.

The twin bombings killed 202 people on 12 October 2002, 88 of them Australian. The three have expressed in the past their willingness to die as martyrs.

Their death sentences have been caught up in debate about the fate of three Indonesian Christians, scheduled to be executed over the weekend for their part in riots that saw 200 mainly Muslim people killed in 2000. Two Indonesian Government sources, contradicting the official government line, have said that it would be politically difficult for the Bali bombers to be executed if the Christians were not put to death first.

The Bali three are being held in the island jail of Nusakambangan, off Java's south coast.

Last week, others convicted as accomplices in the attacks were granted reductions in their sentences as part of an annual custom.
Posted by: Oztralian 2006-08-21
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