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Fairfax Media understands around 16 convicted drug felons could be killed including foreign citizens from China, Pakistan, Zimbabwe and Nigeria.
"We were told just today of the execution date, it's the 29th of July," a source told Fairfax Media.
Amnesty International and Indonesian human rights groups have called for an urgent moratorium on the executions, and for retrials that comply with fair standards, citing disturbing incidences of torture, coercion, corruption and unfair trials in the cases of many of those on death row.
Pakistani deputy ambassador Syed Zahid Raza has also issued a statement saying the embassy had approached officials to convince them its citizen, Zulfiqar Ali, had not been given a fair trial.
Zulfiqar was on Monday transferred to the execution island of Nusakambangan from the nearby port town of Cilacap, where he had been in hospital for two months for illnesses he claims are partly related to the torture he suffered when arrested in 2004.
Vigils will be held outside the Indonesian consulate general in Melbourne at 7pm on July 26 and the Perth consulate general at 5pm on July 27.
Three of those expected to be executed this week - Zulfiqar and Indonesians Agus Hadi and Pujo Lestari - were among 12 death row prisoners named in last year's Amnesty International report Flawed justice: Unfair trials and the death penalty in Indonesia.
"Amnesty International found in the ... cases documented in this report that the defendants did not have access to legal counsel from the time of arrest and at different stages of their trial and appeals; and that they were subjected to ill-treatment while in police custody to make them 'confess' to their alleged crimes or sign police investigation reports," the report said.
Four Chinese men who were found guilty of drug trafficking after a 2005 police raid on a meth lab in Banten are also expected to be executed.
However co-accused Frenchman Serge Atlaoui, who was slated to be executed in April last year but won an eleventh-hour reprieve, has once again been spared.
"It's a relief, it's reassuring, but the fight is not over yet. And I can't possibly celebrate knowing that the relatives of the inmates to be executed will suffer," Mr Atlaoui's wife, Sabine, told Le Republicain Lorrain.
Attorney-General Muhammad Prasetyo said on July 13 that no convicts from the United States, Europe or Australia were on the list to be executed this year.
Source: The Sydney Morning Herald, Jewel Topsfield, July 26, 2016
Reprieve Australia: To our friends in opposition to executions
Reprieve Australia is currently responding to events in Indonesia as another round of executions [has been announced]. Up to 18 Indonesian and foreign prisoners will apparently face firing squads [on 29 July 2016]. The Government refuses to make details public at this stage.
It is a dreadful truth that, even as the government spends weeks speaking of imminent executions, many of those it plans to kill have not been named. Many prisoners on death row simply do not know who will be plucked out and shot.
There is significant media discussing the concerns countries and legal teams have regarding the planned executions. Other deeply troubling issues such as questions of unfair trials, and confession obtained by torture are being raised by legal teams and families. Surely these matters require most careful investigation. We say it is unthinkable that executions would proceed in such circumstances.
We urge you to voice your opposition to the death penalty and encourage others to do so by emailing the Indonesian Embassy to seek clemency for any prisoners facing imminent execution.
The simplest way to do this is to email this address: kbri.visa@gmail.com
Obviously, it is most important that all communications be respectful - that is the most effective way to be persuasive and bring about change.
Please check our Twitter account for the latest updates. You can also visit our Facebook page and website.
Some members of the community will be meeting for vigils to express their opposition to the death penalty, the details are set out here.
Melbourne: Tuesday 26 July, 7pm
Consulate General of the Republic of Indonesia
72 Queens Road, Melbourne (Entrance from 72 Queens Lane)
Perth: Wednesday 27 July, 5pm
Consulate General of the Republic of Indonesia
134 Adelaide Terrace, East Perth
Most of us cannot do much in these circumstances, but let us do what we can to save those facing execution, and to make the world free of state sponsored killings.
Julian McMahon
President, Reprieve Australia
Our mailing address is:
Reprieve Australia
GPO Box 4296
Melbourne, Victoria 3001
Australia
Source: Reprieve Australia, July 26, 2016
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