When the 12-soldier firing squad aimed their rifles at 44-year-old Muhammad Abdul Hafeez in November 2013, they couldn’t have known who fired the lethal shot: only three of their rifles were loaded with live ammunition. In the atmosphere of secrecy that shrouds state-imposed executions in Indonesia, neither Hafeez’s family nor his legal representatives were informed that that Sunday would be the last day of his life.
A condemned prisoner is given just 72 hours’ notice of their impending execution, according to Indonesian human rights organization the Commission for the Disappeared and Victims of Violence (KontraS).
