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Indonesia receives official request from France to transfer death row prisoner Serge Atlaoui

Serge Atlaoui arrives at a court in Indonesia in 2015
Serge Atlaoui arrives at a court in Indonesia in 2015. The French national is on death row after his arrest in 2005 on drugs charges that he denies. Photograph: Tatan Syuflana/AP

Indonesia has received an official request from France to transfer a French death row inmate imprisoned on drugs charges since 2005, a senior Indonesian minister said on Saturday.

“We have received a formal letter requesting the transfer of Serge Atlaoui on 19 December 2024. The letter was sent on behalf of the French minister of justice,” senior Indonesian law and human rights minister Yusril Ihza Mahendra told Agence France-Presse.

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