Foreign Nationals on Death Row Foreign nationals may commit drug offences due to their economic precarity or limited opportunities Humphrey ‘Jeff’ Ejike provided by the licit economy. For example, many Jeff, a Nigerian were working as salesmen, traders or sailors. A few national, owned a were involved in drug production, for example as restaurant in Jakarta. chemical engineers. All of the women were He had made a ‘housewives’ or ‘domestic workers’ and were complaint to the police couriering for signi cant men in their lives, usually a about harassment he romantic partner, rather than in a role associated with their own profession. had been subject to at the restaurant from a local drug gang. On 2 August 2003, while he was at Some foreign nationals enter Indonesia with illegal documents. Several Nigerians used false passports from other African countries, such as Sierra Leone, Senegal, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. Many of the Nigerians appeared to have couriered drugs into Indonesia from supply lines in Pakistan. There is also church, police raided the restaurant and reportedly found drugs hidden in a mattress. His lawyer at LBH Masyarakat (LBHM) believes Jeff was framed. Jeff was beaten severely while in police custody and was reportedly told he would be released if he gave the police the name of another African man instead. some evidence that black people are discriminated Jeff was sentenced to death in April 2004, despite against in the criminal justice system and receive evidentiary inadequacies. Appeals against his sentence worse treatment in detention, including coerced were unsuccessful and he was transferred to confessions. Of the 14 scheduled executions that were due to take place in July 2016, only four were carried out, all of whom were black Africans. Black Nusakambangan prison. In prison, Jeff volunteered at the prison hospital and led prayer services for other inmates. While his clemency application was still pending, Jeff was executed in July 2016, aged 42, Africans also made up almost half of all executions in along with three other Africans and an Indonesian man. 2015, despite only representing 1% of all those on death row. Ooi Swee Liew Ooi Swee Liew, a Malaysian woman, suffered from several health conditions. Her husband Tor Eng Tart told her that he had made arrangements for them to travel to Indonesia to seek help from a traditional healer. In fact, he was arranging a drugs transfer. The pair were arrested when drugs were found in their hotel room. Both were sentenced to death in September 2016. During her trial, the court provided only a Mandarin interpreter although Ooi Swee Liew did not speak Mandarin, as her husband did. The court appointed lawyer only met her at the trial for the rst time and she was sentenced to death. Legal aid clinic LBH Masyarakat (LBHM) offered their assistance at the appeal stage, but the judges would not overturn the death sentence. LBHM managed to secure her transfer to a women’s prison, however Ooi Swee fi fi Liew died in custody in August 2020, aged 51.