The 88-year-old former boxer was wrongly accused of a quadruple murder in 1966 with help from fabricated evidence.
Indonesian authorities have been hunting accused drug trafficker Gregor Johann Haas since December last year. They arrested him on Wednesday with help from Philippine police.
The court found Truong My Lan ran an orchestrated criminal enterprise that had serious consequences,with no possibility of the money being recovered.
Human rights groups estimate there are 5000 foreigners in Chinese jails. At least 50 of them are Australian,including Australian man Yang Hengjun.
China’s ambassador was summoned to Penny Wong’s office for a dressing down that lasted 20 minutes.
Officials said Kenneth Eugene Smith,a 58-year-old convicted murderer,was pronounced dead at 8.25pm in Alabama.
Such heinous crimes,by a neonatal nurse no less,make capital punishment tempting. But maybe living with what she’s done will be punishment enough.
Anthony Albanese said there had been a “substantial breakthrough” in the cases of two Australians sentenced to capital punishment.
Sirul Azhar Umar,a former member of the security detail for Malaysian kings and PMs,has been detained in Sydney for eight years while facing the death penalty at home.
Nearly four decades after his father tried to spare the life of Australian Kevin Barlow,Ramkarpal Singh has helped usher through his country’s abolition of the mandatory death penalty.
Sirul Azhar Umar has been held in Australia for eight years for his part in a grisly,politically charged murder that rocked Malaysia and remains shrouded in mystery.