Denpasar District Court today, Tuesday, September 21, 2010, will hold the inaugural session of the filing review (PK) by two of the conspirators 'Bali Nine' Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan. This is the last legal recourse for the defendant to escape the firing squad.
Chan (26) and Sukumaran (29) are two of the nine Australians convicted of smuggling cases related to death more than eight kilograms of heroin from Bali to Australia.
Although identified as the leader of a group of drugs, they initially claimed was innocent sturdy. However, in PK file submissions to the court last month, they finally admitted to be part of a syndicate that and regretted their actions.
They pleaded with the judges to change the death penalty for them to prison 20 years. One reason put forward, they have been undergoing rehabilitation in correctional institutions (prisons) Kerobokan, Bali.
A number of witnesses will they ask in court, including Chief of Kerobokan prison, Siswanto, and former Supreme Court justices, John Harahap. Australian Psychologist, Paul Millen, and the Irish human rights lawyer, William Schabas, will also be imported.
If the proposal fails PK, which could be the last attempt to escape the death penalty stay asking for clemency to the president.
Previously, similar PK also submitted one of the conspirators other Bali Nine, Scott Rush.
In the court filing PK Rush, a former high-ranking officials and police in Australia were presented as witnesses. They provide information that the men arrested at the age of 19 years was merely a courier.
Rush asked him a death sentence replaced 15-year prison sentence. Of the six Bali Nine courier, only Rush were sentenced to death. Five others - Matthew Norman, Martin Stephens, Michael Czugaj, Si Yi Chen and Tan Duc Than Nguyen - sentenced to life imprisonment.
