Nine foreign drug convicts are set to be executed in Indonesia after losing all appeals for clemency.
Here are brief profiles of the inmates, who include two from Australia, one each from Brazil, France and the Philippines, and four from Africa.
Myuran Sukumaran
A ringleader of the Bali Nine drugs smuggling syndicate, Sukumaran was born in London in 1981 and moved with his Sri Lankan family to Australia when he was a child.
He dropped out of university and became involved in the Sydney drugs and party scene. Enticed by the prospect of easy money, in 2005 he helped to organise a shipment of heroin destined for Australia, but was caught and sentenced to death a year later.
In this tv grab picture taken from Indonesian Metro TV on March 5, 2015, show undated photograph of Nigerian death row prisonerRaheem Agbaje Salami is seen in penitentiary in Madiun, eastern Java island and Silvester Obiekwe Nwolise in Nusakambangan prison.
Sukumaran said the shock of jail prompted him to change his life and he has become a model prisoner, teaching other inmates English and art.
Andrew Chan
Like Sukumaran, Chan, 31, also hails from Sydney. He was born in 1984 to Chinese-immigrant parents Ken and Helen, who spent some four decades running restaurants. Chan started taking drugs when he was 16 and said his parents were unable to control him.
Just two years after Chan’s parents retired, they were told their 21-year-old son had been arrested in Indonesia for being a ringleader of a heroin-smuggling gang. In jail he has become a committed Christian and, after six years of theology study, he was ordained as a minister in February.
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