Court rejects man’s execution appeal

Serge Atlaoui had been granted a last-minute reprieve while legal avenues were exhausted and was left out of a group of seven foreign prisoners who were executed on April 29.
President Joko Widodo’s refusal to grant clemency despite repeated pleas for mercy has strained Indonesia’s relations with a number of countries, including Australia, Brazil, the Netherlands and Nigeria, which have all had citizens on death row.