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Indonesia to repatriate 2 convicted Dutch drug traffickers, including one on death row
The repatriation deal reflects Indonesia's recent pattern of returning foreign prisoners, including one on death row and both elderly men with drug convictions.
- Indonesia and the Netherlands agreed to repatriate two Dutch nationals convicted of drug offences in Indonesia, including one facing the death penalty and another serving a life sentence.
- The prisoner on death row, Siegfried Mets, 74, was convicted of involvement in the shipment of 600,000 ecstasy pills from the Netherlands to Indonesia in 2008.
- The other man, Ali Tokman, 65, was taken into custody in 2014 after customs officers found slightly more than 6 kilograms of MDMA and has served 11 years of his life sentence.
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Jakarta, under pressure from The Hague, agrees to repatriate Dutch drug convicts — including death row inmate
JAKARTA, INDONESIA: After decades of legal battles and long years behind bars, two Dutch men convicted of drug offenses in Indonesia are finally set to return home, under a historic agreement between the two countries. One has spent nearly two decades on death row, while the other has served more than a decade of a […]
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