SYDNEY, Feb 14 (AFP) -Prime Minister Tony Abbott Saturday pleaded with Indonesia to heed Australia’s call for clemency for two death row convicts, and warned that Canberra would make its displeasure known should the executions go ahead. Andrew Chan, 31, and Myuran Sukumaran, 33, are facing execution by firing squad after being convicted over a [...]

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SYDNEY, Feb 14 (AFP) -Prime Minister Tony Abbott Saturday pleaded with Indonesia to heed Australia’s call for clemency for two death row convicts, and warned that Canberra would make its displeasure known should the executions go ahead.

Andrew Chan, 31, and Myuran Sukumaran, 33, are facing execution by firing squad after being convicted over a failed 2005 bid to traffic heroin from Indonesia’s island of Bali into Australia.

“Millions of Australians are feeling very, very upset about what may soon happen to two Australians in Indonesia,” Abbott told reporters in Sydney.

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