SYDNEY: Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott offered a glimmer of hope for two men facing imminent execution in Indonesia after phoning President Joko Widodo, who he said was “carefully considering his position”.
Australians Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan, ringleaders of the so-called “Bali Nine” drug smuggling gang, were arrested for trying to traffic heroin out of Indonesia in 2005 and sentenced to death the following year.
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