The Indonesian justice system is telling the Bali Nine death row pair that the jig is up.
News broke yesterday that Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan’s appeals for clemency (their last-ditch attempts to avoid the firing squad) were finally rejected.
A spokesman for the Denpasar court, Hasoloan Sianturi, said yesterday afternoon that the application could not be accepted and the documents would not reach the supreme court for review, reports the Guardian. The court had taken the application on Friday and was deliberating it this week.
This appeal for clemency, in Indonesia referred to as a PK, has been controversial and is based on an Indonesian constitutional court ruling that prisoners can submit more than one appeal for judicial review with the addition of new evidence. But figures like Indonesia’s attorney general HM Prasetyo have previously said that once the bids for clemency were formally rejected by the executive office, that the was the end of the story.
However, the Bali Nine pair’s legal team is not ready to throw in their towels just yet. Indonesian lawyer for the two Todung Mulya Lubis told the Guardian that the rejection could be violating the constitutional court decision.
“[The] constitutional court decision is final and binding, and every court should adhere to that decision. I regret the rejection and reserve a right to take any possible legal recourse available,” Lubis said late yesterday, as quoted by the Guardian.
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