Relatives of two of the Islamist militants facing imminent execution for the Bali bombings that killed 202 people said on Sunday they will visit the brothers on Monday.
They also said a brother of the bombers would fly to Bali on Sunday to lodge a last-ditch appeal at the Denpasar court that sentenced the bombers to death in 2003 under a tough new anti-terrorism law.
It was not clear on what grounds they would seek to prevent the executions, which are set to take place any day, after Indonesian authorities said the bombers had exhausted their legal options.
Ali Fauzi, the younger brother of convicted bombers Amrozi and Mukhlas, said he would travel on Sunday to the high-security Nusakambangan Prison in southern Java from the family’s village of Tenggulun in the east of the island.
He said he would arrive at about dawn on Monday to see his brothers as part of a ”routine visit”, and would leave on Monday afternoon.
”I will go to Nusakambangan with my nephew Sumarno by road. I will arrive tomorrow [Monday] in the early morning,” Fauzi told AFP.
”This morning another brother has flown to Bali to give a letter of appeal against the executions to the Bali court,” he added, without elaborating.
The execution of the condemned men — Amrozi (47), Mukhlas (48) and Imam Samudra (38) — is believed to be days or even hours away.
They have been placed in isolation and the order for their death by firing squad has been delivered, a source at Nusakambangan has said.
The 2002 bombings targeted nightspots packed with Western tourists, killing more than 160 foreigners, including 88 Australians. The bombers said they were retaliation for United States-led wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
They were convicted and sentenced under a new law that was applied retroactively, leading anti-death penalty campaigners to question the legality of their executions.
Defence lawyers said they knew nothing about the timing of the executions but would accompany Fauzi on the visit to the prison.
”We want to know their latest condition as we have heard from media that the executions will be imminent,” lawyer Achmad Michdan said. — AFP
