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Fred

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18231898

A British woman has been arrested for allegedly trafficking cocaine worth £1.6m into the Indonesian island of Bali, a customs official has said.

Lindsay Sandiford, 56, was stopped with the 4.7kg haul in a suitcase as she arrived on a flight from Bangkok in Thailand on 19 May, Made Wijaya said.


There's a pretty reasonable chance she'll end up in front of a firing squad for that one.

If anyone reads this who is considering a drug run to Bali or anywhere else in Indonesia...

http://asiadeathpenalty.blogspot.com/20 … o-die.html

Father Charlie Burrows was present when firing squads shot the two Nigerians in the middle of the night, in a forest clearing on Nusa Kambangan Island, Central Java.

Samuel Iwachekawu Okoye and Hansen Anthony Nwaoysa (or Antonious) were tied to crosses with their hands behind their backs and hoods over their heads, he told an Australian journalist.

The men prayed and sang hymns with the priest while they were shot, according to the report by Cindy Wockner.

"After they were shot they were hurting," Father Burrows said.

"They were moaning and it takes seven minutes to die, the blood was coming out. So then I tried singing a few hymns when they were dying. So you could say it's torture, shooting people. It's torture.


Just say no

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Fred

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GL042bOoSU

Fred

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm89zl-dC28

jazzy851

@ mas fred - Quite sad and shocking to see this !

The penalties here are severe and I never understand why some take the enormous risk!

Fred

jazzy851 wrote:

@ mas fred - Quite sad and shocking to see this !

The penalties here are severe and I never understand why some take the enormous risk!


Greed and/or stupidity seem to be good guesses.

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