Bali Nine leaders: Countdown to execution

Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, ringleaders of the so-called Bali Nine, a group of nine Australians convicted in 2006 of heroin smuggling in Indonesia, have been executed by firing squad

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Chan Sukumaran

Apr 8-12, 2005: Australian police tip-off Indonesian counterparts about smuggling attempt, advising them to “take whatever action you deem
necessary”

Apr 17: Chan arrested at Ngurah Rai Airport with four other members of group, who have 8.3kg of heroin strapped to their bodies. Sukumaran
and other three arrested in Kuta, preparing second shipment

Apr 27: Indonesian police shoot dead Nepalese citizen Mann Singh Gali, who they claim supplied heroin

Oct: Trial of Bali Nine begins

Feb 2006: Chan and Sukumaran sentenced to death by firing squad. Other seven sentenced to life in jail

Jun-Jul 2011: Chan and Sukumaran’s requests for judicial reviews, filed in 2010, rejected

May-Jul 2012: Chan and Sukumaran appeal to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono for clemency

Dec 2014: New president, Joko Widodo, stresses he will not grant clemency to drug traffickers

Jan 2015: Chan and Sukumaran’s bids for clemency rejected

Feb 4: Request for second judicial review rejected. Australian foreign affairs minister Julie Bishop makes plea in federal parliament for  Indonesia to spare lives of both men

Mar 4: Chan and Sukumaran transferred from Bali jail to Nusa Kambangan Island to await execution

Mar 5: Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott asks Indonesia to “pull back”. Widodo rules out prisoner swap

Apr 21: Widodo restates commitment to execute men

Apr 29: Chan and Sukumaran executed with six other convicted drug traffickers. Filipina woman spared after her government lodged last-minute appeal

INDONESIA

AUSTRALIA

Nusa Kambangan Island

Kuta, Bali

Ngurah Rai Airport

1,000km 620 miles
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Source: Wire agencies

Pictures: Getty Images

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