Drug Smuggling
5 more Australians to die in Indonesia
Afp, Jakarta
Five Australians have been sentenced to death for drug smuggling in Indonesia after a supreme court judge handed down tougher sentences in response to their appeals, a court spokesman said yesterdayA court official said the ruling meant that a total of seven Australians, part of the so-called Bali Nine, would face the firing squad for trafficking heroin from the Indonesian resort island last year."Yes, it's true -- seven people have been given the death sentence," Supreme Court spokesman Joko Upoyo Pribadi told AFP. The supreme court upheld the death penalty for two defendants -- Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, he said. The court handed down stiffer sentences to five others -- Tach Duc Thanh Nguyen, James Norman, Si Yi Chen, Scott Rush and Renae Lawrence -- in response to their appeals, the spokesman said.
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