Activists react after it was announced that the execution was delayed for death row prisoner Mary Jane Veloso during a vigil outside Indonesian embassy in Makati, Philippines, April 29, 2015. REUTERS/Erik De Castro
CILACAP, Indonesia (Reuters) - An Indonesian firing squad executed eight drug traffickers, including seven foreigners, in the early hours of Wednesday, sparking condemnation from Australia and Brazil who had made final, desperate pleas to save their nationals.
The mass execution cements the hard line on enforcing the death penalty adopted by Indonesian President Joko Widodo as part of his war on drugs, an approach criticised by the United Nations as applying double-standards.
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