Four Nigerians who are about to be executed today in Indonesia have been assigned 14 executioners each.
Already, Executioners and a total of 12 ambulances carrying coffins have been deployed to Nusakambangan prison island, ahead of the imminent killing, for drug offenses, of eight foreigners and one Indonesian national.
“Each person will face 14 executors,” the Central Java Police chief, Insp. Gen. Noerali, said on Tuesday, confirming that the executions were imminent. “There are nine people in total,” he said.
The executions on the prison island near Cilacap in Central Java are likely to be carried out in the early hours of Wednesday, but neither date nor time have been officially announced.
On the list of people to be executed are ‘Bali Nine’ duo Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, both Australian nationals, Filipina Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso, Rodrigo Gularte, a Brazilian diagnosed with a mental illness, Raheem Agbaje Salami, Martin Anderson, Sylvester Obiekwe Nwolise and Okwudili Oyatanze of Nigeria, and Indonesian national Zainal Abidin.
A Frenchman, Serge Atlaoui, was initially part of this group of people, but he has been granted a temporary reprieve after his lawyer managed to file a final appeal on the verge of the deadline on Thursday. France, Australia and Brazil have been the most vocal critics of President Joko Widodo’s decision to carry out the executions.