It was almost 8 p.m. when 2 jail guards at the Tangerang Women’s Penitentiary in Banten awoke Merri Utami. They were bring a water bottle and a water scoop. “Wash your face,” Merri remembered the guards purchasing. The officers informed her she would be transferred to Cilacap in Central Java however they would not state why she was being moved. But on that evening– Saturday, July 24, 2016– Merri knew it might be her execution. Merri said she was sentenced to death after her ex-boyfriend deceived her into carrying 1.1 kgs of heroin from Nepal to Indonesia. She was caught at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in 2001 and stated police officers tortured her so that she would sign a confession of regret in a police interrogation report (BAP). On July 25, 2016, she was transferred to Nusakambangan at 4: 30 a.m. under a tight escort after 12 years in her …
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