DutchNews.nl, January 16, 2015
Foreign affairs minister Bert Koenders has
told reporters he and prime minister Mark Rutte are doing all they can to stop
Indonesia executing a Dutch national this weekend.
Koenders said he is using
international channels to try to stop Ang Kiem Soei from facing a firing squad
on Sunday. ‘There are all sorts of ways to do this, pressure, conviction,
alliances with other countries and using our people at the highest level,’ he
said.
Kiem Soei was sentenced to death in 2003 for his involvement in an
ecstasy production lab in Indonesia.
Four other foreigners from Brazil, Malawi,
Vietnam and Nigeria are also due to be executed along with an Indonesian man,
international news agencies said.
Another Dutch national is also on death row
in Indonesia for ecstasy production. A third Dutch man, also senteced to death
for his involvement in ecstasy, died in jail several years ago.
Some 130 people
are awaiting the death penalty in Indonesia, 64 of them for drugs offences,
news agency ANP said.
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Five
foreigners and an Indonesian woman sentenced to death on drug charges will
be executed by firing squad despite
international pleas, Indonesian officials said
Saturday. (AP Photo/Wagino) |
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