UN chief urges Indonesia to spare drug convicts from execution

UNITED STATE;

United Nation chief Ban Ki moon appeal
to Indonesia to spare from impending
execution a group of no death row drug
convicts,most of them foreigners,

The secretary General appeals to the
government of Indonesia to refrain from
carrying out the execution as announced
of to prisoners on death row for alleged
drug related crimes a spokesman for Ban
said.

Earliar ,Indonesia said it had officially
notified foreign national convicted of drug
crimes-- from Australia,Brazil, Nigeria and
the Philippines --that they will be executed.

A Frenchman was granted a temporary reprieve
after Paris stepped up pressure on Jakarta
An Indonesia is the 10' being sent to the gallows

Drug related offences generally are not considered
to fall under the category of most serous crimes,
He appeal to Indonesia President Jolo Widodo
to consider banning capital punishment.

The foreign drug convicts have all lost appeals
for clemency from Widodo,who argues that
Indonesia is fighting a drugs emergency,

They are expected to be put to death by firing
squad in a matter of days AFP