Pakistan’s government is working hard to dissuade Indonesia from executing Zulfikar Ali, a Pakistani citizen on death row since 2005 for drug smuggling. Pakistan says Ali’s “trial was not fair.” The Indonesian government has yet to respond to the request to spare Ali from its latest looming death penalty spree. Those executions are part of President Joko Widodo’s signature policy of executing convicted drug traffickers as a form of judicial “shock therapy” against a perceived domestic drug emergency.
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