Indonesian court rejects Frenchman’s appeal
The Jakarta State Administrative Court (PTUN) rejected on Tuesday a last-ditch attempt by death-row inmate Frenchman Serge Atlaoui to avoid the firing squad.
The court dismissed Atlaoui’s appeal against President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s decision to reject his request for clemency.
“The court cannot accept the lawsuit. The litigant is required to pay Rp 186,000 [US$14.4] for the lawsuit,” said head of Jakarta’s PTUN head Hendro Puspito in his ruling uploaded on the court’s website.
It remains unclear whether Atlaoui will be included in the list of inmates scheduled to be executed early on Wednesday.
The Attorney General’s Office (AGO) said on Monday that it would wait for the PTUN decision before deciding when to execute Atlaoui.
Nine death-row inmates are currently awaiting execution on the prison island of Nusakambangan in Central Java. They are citizens of Indonesia, Australia, Brazil, Nigeria, Ghana and the Philippines.
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