Raji Sukumaran, left, the mother of condemned Australian Myuran Sukumaran, arrives at a prison to visit her son in Bali, Indonesia, Monday, Feb. 16, 2015. Foreign Minister Julie Bishop moved a motion in Parliament last week calling for clemency for the Australians Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan. The opposition party supported the motion, in a show of bipartisan support for saving the heroin smugglers. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)
Raji Sukumaran, left, the mother of condemned Australian Myuran Sukumaran, arrives at a prison to visit her son in Bali, Indonesia, Monday, Feb. 16, 2015. Foreign Minister Julie Bishop moved a motion in Parliament last week calling for clemency for the Australians Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan. The opposition party supported the motion, in a show of bipartisan support for saving the heroin smugglers. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian authorities say eight convicted drug smugglers, including two Australians, will be transferred to a prison island for execution despite international appeals.
Attorney General Office’s spokesman Tony Spontana said Monday that Andrew Chan, 31, and Myuran Sukumaran, 33, will be taken from their cell on Bali island to Nusa Kambangan prison island this week.
He said seven men from Indonesia, Australia, France, Brazil, Ghana, Nigeria and a woman from the Philippines, have exhausted all legal options, but he gave no exact date for their executions.
They will face a firing squad that will shoot them simultaneously in pairs.
Human rights experts have expressed concern at reports indicating a trial for some defendants did not meet international standards of fairness.
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