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UN chief urges Indonesia to spare drug convicts from execution

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AFP United Nations
United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon appealed to Indonesia today to spare from execution a group of death-row drug convicts, nine of them foreigners.

"The Secretary General appeals to the government of Indonesia to refrain from carrying out the execution, as announced, of 10 prisoners on death row for alleged drug-related crimes," a spokesman for Ban said.

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First Published: Apr 26 2015 | 2:07 AM IST

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