On April 28, 2008, nine Australians were arrested in Bali for trying to smuggle 8.3 kilograms of heroin out of the country. The so-called “Bali Nine” included seven men and two women, all in their twenties. Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, the alleged ringleaders of the group, were sentenced to death in 2006. On April 29, 2015, six of the nine were executed by firing squad, while the other three had their sentences commuted to life imprisonment.
The arrests of …