Execution of two brothers postponed<\/p>\n
Agence France-Presse, Jakarta<\/p>\n
The authorities on Tuesday postponed the scheduled execution of
\ntwo brothers on death row for a premeditated triple murder, an
\nofficial said.<\/p>\n
Sadawa Hia, 23, and Taroni Hia, 26, were to face a
\nparamilitary firing squad at an undisclosed location in West
\nSumatra province on Wednesday, provincial chief prosecutor
\nAntasari Azhar told journalists.<\/p>\n
Lawyers for the condemned men earlier Tuesday filed a demand
\nfor a case review, he said.<\/p>\n
Azhar said he had planned to execute the men on Wednesday
\nunless he received a demand for a case review by Tuesday.<\/p>\n
\"But it turns out the demand for the review came in,\" Azhar
\nsaid.<\/p>\n
He said he will in the next one or two days seek guidance from
\nthe Supreme Court on whether to go ahead with the execution or
\nallow the case review to proceed.<\/p>\n
\"I will seek guidance from the Supreme court, and therefore
\nthe execution is postponed,\" he said.<\/p>\n
Then-president Megawati Soekarnoputri rejected the brothers'
\ndemand for clemency in July 2004.<\/p>\n
The Hia brothers were sentenced to death in March 2002 for
\nkilling three members of a family during a robbery in the West
\nSumatran town of Maninjau in December 2001.<\/p>\n
The executions were to take place in Jakarta where the two
\nwere detained but they were returned to West Sumatra last month.<\/p>\n
Indonesia has already held eight executions in just over a
\nyear after a three-year pause, ignoring complaints from rights
\ngroups.<\/p>\n
In April, a woman who killed and mutilated three other women
\nin East Java province between 1992 and 1996 was executed.<\/p>\n
In May, a former ship's captain faced the firing squad in
\nSumatra island's Jambi province for having hacked to death his
\n16-year-old girlfriend in 1997 after he found she was cheating on
\nhim. He went on to kill her brother, mother and niece.<\/p>",
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