1 day ago · Police accused him of being a “chemist” at the site. He was initially sentenced to life, but the Supreme Court in 2007 increased the sentence to death on appeal. About 530 people are on death row in Indonesia, mostly for drug-related crimes, including nearly 100 foreigners, Ministry of Immigration and Corrections’ data shows.

20 hours ago · Indonesia has handed over to French authorities a man on death row for drug offences who will start his return to his home country late on Tuesday, the latest in a series of foreign drug convicts ...

Capital punishment is a legal penalty in Indonesia. Although the death penalty is normally enforced only in grave cases of premeditated murder, corruption in extreme cases can lead to the death penalty and the death penalty is also regularly applied to certain drug traffickers. Executions are carried out by firing squad. [1] [2] [3]

19 hours ago · A Frenchman on death row in Indonesia since 2007 for drug offences left for France on Tuesday, February 4, with his lawyer saying he was "happy and calm" ahead of returning home. Serge Atlaoui, 61 ...

1 day ago · Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Death row inmate Serge Atlaoui of France arrives to sign documents for his judicial review at Tangerang District Court in Tangerang, Banten province, Indonesia, April 1, 2015.

02/04/2025 February 4, 2025. French national Serge Atlaoui is set to go home after he spent two decades on death row in an Indonesian prison for alleged drug offenses.

1 day ago · JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesian authorities on Tuesday were set to return an ailing French national who has been on death row in the Southeast Asian country, under an arrangement between the two ...

Dec 14, 2024 · Filipino death row inmate Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso knelt to pray when officers came to take her to an execution site in May 2015, just feet from her isolation cell on an Indonesian prison island, where a 13-member firing squad was waiting.

Nov 21, 2024 · Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said Wednesday that a deal has been reached for Indonesia to send home a Filipino death-row drug convict who was nearly executed by firing squad but got...

Jan 24, 2025 · Indonesia and France have signed an agreement to repatriate a French citizen who was facing the death penalty over drug offenses. Serge Atlaoui has been in jail in Indonesia since 2005.