Members of Indonesian security carry the coffin containing the body of executed Nigerian Okwudili Oyatanze at an orphanage in Semarang regency, Central Java, Indonesia, yesterday. An Indonesian firing squad executed eight drug traffickers, including two Australians, four Nigerians, a Brazilian and an Indonesian, in the early hours of yesterday, sparking condemnation from Australia and Brazil who had made final, desperate pleas to save their nationals. The mass execution cements the hard line on enforcing the death penalty adopted by Indonesian President Joko Widodo as part of his war on drugs, an approach criticized by the United Nations as applying a double standard.SD-Agencies
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