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Brazil and the Netherlands recalled their ambassadors to Indonesia yesterday after they both had citizens among five foreigners and an Indonesian woman executed on drug trafficking charges.
Amnesty International condemned the executions as a “retrograde step.”
The five foreigners from Nigeria, Malawi, Vietnam, the Netherlands and Brazil — along with the Indonesian — were shot by firing squad shortly after midnight yesterday.
Newly revealed documents reveal that MI5 taught Brazilian secret police the techniques deployed by the 1964-85 military dictatorship in horrific prisons like Rio de Janeiro’s House of Death. SARA VIVACQUA reports
Colombia’s success in controlling the drug trade should be recognised and its sovereignty respected, argues Dr GLORY SAAVEDRA
