REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Amnesty International (AI) has sent an open letter to Indonesian President Joko Widodo (Jokowi), urging him to grant clemency to the 10 prisoners facing imminent execution in Indonesia.

"On behalf of AI's seven million supporters worldwide, we are writing to express our grave concern regarding the impending executions of at least 10 people from Indonesia, Australia, Brazil, France, Ghana, Nigeria, and the Philippines for drug-related crimes," AI said in its letter dated April 27 and signed by 13 AI directors.

The 13 AI directors are respectively from Australia, Brazil, France, India, South Korea, Mongolia, Taiwan, Thailand, Japan, Nepal, New Zealand, the Philippines, and Malaysia.

"AI has campaigned for the abolition of death penalty for over 30 years. That is why our long-standing campaign against death penalty has included the efforts on behalf of several Indonesian nationals facing execution," AI noted in the statement.

AI is committed to campaigning against the imposition of death penalty in all cases, irrespective of the nationality of those facing execution.

"We urge you to grant clemency to the prisoners on death row facing imminent execution. We understand Indonesia's need to punish and deter criminal acts. Nevertheless, there is no evidence that death penalty deters crime more effectively than other punishments," they said in the letter.

"On behalf of our supporters, who have also campaigned for Indonesian prisoners facing death penalty, we respectfully urge you to halt plans to carry out these executions. We further urge you to establish a moratorium on all executions with a view to abolish the death penalty," AI directors wrote.

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