Frenchman Felix Dorfin’s death sentence adds to list of foreigners who have felt full force of Indonesia’s strict drug laws
- Felix Dorfin’s conviction adds to a growing number of overseas nationals executed or consigned to death row
Dorfin was arrested last September for carrying a suitcase filled with more than 3kg of drugs, including ecstasy and amphetamines.
Here are some of the others to have felt the full force of Indonesia’s justice system:
MARY JANE VELOSO, PHILIPPINES
Veloso was handed a death sentence in 2010 after she was apprehended with 2.6kg of heroin at Yogyakarta airport in central Java.
The young Filipino’s case struck a chord with many Indonesians due to her background as a poor migrant worker and a possible victim of human trafficking.
She eventually managed to win a last-minute reprieve upon the request by the Philippine government. She remains on death row.
Convicted drug trafficker Mary Jane Veloso spared Indonesian firing squad – for now
ANDREW CHAN AND MYURAN SUKUMARAN, AUSTRALIA
Chan, 31, and Sukumaran, 34, were executed by firing squad in 2015 on accusations they were the ringleaders of the so-called “Bali Nine” heroin smuggling gang.
They spent a decade in an Indonesian jail after their arrest for smuggling 18.5kg of the drug out of the holiday island.
Bodies of Bali Nine Australians executed in Indonesia 'flown home by family'
LINDSAY SANDIFORD, BRITAIN
The 62-year-old grandmother has been on death row for seven years after her conviction in 2012 for smuggling 4.7kg of cocaine into Bali. She claimed a British syndicate forced her to bring the drug over from Thailand.
She is the only foreign woman to have received a death sentence for drug crimes on the island, and could face execution at any time at just 72 hours’ notice.
British grandmother Lindsay Sandiford’s life on Bali’s death row: ‘if you want to shoot me, shoot me’
MARCO ARCHER MOREIRA, BRAZIL
Moreira became the first Brazilian citizen to be executed abroad when he faced a firing squad in 2015 after his conviction in 2003 for entering Jakarta with 13.4kg of cocaine concealed inside a hang glider.
His life was ended at 53 years old, and disturbing accounts emerged of his last minutes claiming he was dragged screaming and crying from his cell, and had to be hosed down by guards after “excrementing in his trousers”.
Then Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff said she was outraged by the execution.
Indonesia executes five foreigners and local woman by firing squad for drug trafficking
ADAMI WILSON, MALAWI
Indonesia resumed executions in 2013 after a four-year hiatus by sending 48-year-old Wilson to a firing squad after he was convicted of trafficking 1kg of heroin nine years earlier through the country’s southwestern Banten province.
TAIWANESE EIGHT
Eight Taiwanese drug smugglers were sentenced to death last year after being caught with a tonne of crystal methamphetamine worth a massive US$144 million. They were arrested in raids during which the suspected leader of their drug network was killed in a shoot-out with police. Indonesian authorities said 1,000kg of the drug had been shipped from mainland China.
