The spiritual advisers who will spend the final hours of life with those condemned to die in Indonesia's next round of executions have been told they will be carried out around midnight on July 29 to 30.
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Fairfax Media understands around 16 convicted drug felons could be killed including foreign citizens from China, Pakistan, Zimbabwe and Nigeria.
"We were told just today of the execution date, it's the 29th of July," a source told Fairfax Media..
Amnesty International and Indonesian human rights groups have called for an urgent moratorium on the executions, and for retrials that comply with fair standards, citing disturbing incidences of torture, coercion, corruption and unfair trials in the cases of many of those on death row.
Pakistani deputy ambassador Syed Zahid Raza has also issued a statement saying the embassy had approached officials to convince them its citizen, Zulfiqar Ali, had not been given a fair trial.
Zulfiqar was on Monday transferred to the execution island of Nusakambangan from the nearby port town of Cilacap, where he had been in hospital for two months for illnesses he claims are partly related to the torture he suffered when arrested in 2004.
Vigils will be held outside the Indonesian consulate general in Melbourne at 7pm on July 26 and the Perth consulate general at 5pm on July 27.
Three of those expected to be executed this week - Zulfiqar and Indonesians Agus Hadi and Pujo Lestari - were among 12 death row prisoners named in last year's Amnesty International report Flawed justice: Unfair trials and the death penalty in Indonesia.
"Amnesty International found in the ... cases documented in this report that the defendants did not have access to legal counsel from the time of arrest and at different stages of their trial and appeals; and that they were subjected to ill-treatment while in police custody to make them 'confess' to their alleged crimes or sign police investigation reports," the report said.
Four Chinese men who were found guilty of drug trafficking after a 2005 police raid on a meth lab in Banten are also expected to be executed.
However co-accused Frenchman Serge Atlaoui, who was slated to be executed in April last year but won an eleventh-hour reprieve, has once again been spared.
"It's a relief, it's reassuring, but the fight is not over yet. And I can't possibly celebrate knowing that the relatives of the inmates to be executed will suffer," Mr Atlaoui's wife, Sabine, told Le Republicain Lorrain.
Attorney-General Muhammad Prasetyo said on July 13 that no convicts from the United States, Europe or Australia were on the list to be executed this year.
Tellingly, given the international backlash sparked by last year's executions in countries such as Australia, the Netherlands and Brazil, all foreigners included on this year's list come from countries that also enforce the death penalty.
A source told Fairfax Media the four Chinese to be executed - Chen Hongxin, Gan Chunyi, JIan Yuxin and Zhu Xuxiong - would not have a spiritual counsellor with them during their final hours.
"They don't believe in religion, they are atheist, they believe in one person, Mao Zedong, the Chinese communist leader," he said.
"They were asked if they believed in God, they said religions are made by people, they created statues, idol and asked everybody to worship it. One of them take a photo [of Mao Zedong] out, put it on the wall, and they all stand up straight before it."
Families of the Chinese men are expected to arrive in the port town of Cilacap, the gateway to Nusakambangan. on Wednesday or Thursday.
Others on the execution list include Nigerians Eugene Ape, Seck Osmane, Michael Titus Igweh, Humphrey Jefferson Ejike Eleweke and Obinna Nwajagu and Indonesians Freddy Budiman and Merri Utami.
With Karuni Rompies and Amilia Rosa
