Dutch and French may fight death penalty

Thursday 31 May 2007

The foreign affairs ministry is in talks with France over possible joint action to try to overturn the death penalty imposed on two of their nationals by Indonesia. A 62-year-old Dutchman and 45-year-old French national were earlier sentenced to life imprisonment for running a drugs factory near Jakarta, but this was increased to death on appeal.

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