LAWYERS for the three men facing execution for the Bali bombings which killed 202 people filed a desperate last-minute appeal yesterday to save them from the firing squad.
But prosecutors said the appeal was invalid as the bombers - Amrozi, 47, his brother Mukhlas, 48, and Imam Samudra, 38 - had exhausted their legal options and must now die in line with their 2003 sentences.
"No more appeals can be accepted because the limit is only one," a spokesman for Indonesia's Attorney General's Office said, even though the bombers have had at least three appeals considered by the Indonesian courts.
Lawyer Imam Asmara Hadi said the appeal filed in Bali's Denpasar district court rested on the bombers' claim they had not been properly informed of the rejection of their previous petition.
Amid fears of violent protests, police stepped up security around Cilacap port connecting Java to the high-security Nusakambangan prison island where the bombers are believed to be just days or even hours away from execution.
Heavily armed police extended a no-go zone around the port and barred all traffic to the island in the latest sign that the executions are imminent.
Security has been tightened across the mainly Muslim archipelago due to concerns about revenge attacks from fanatics and the Jemaah Islamiyah regional terror network, allegedly behind the Bali carnage.
The bombings of packed nightspots on the resort island in 2002 killed mostly foreign tourists including 88 Australians, as well as 38 Indonesians.
Nusakambangan prison chief Bambang Winahyo said the bombers appeared to be calm and ready to die.
They have repeatedly assertions that they want to be "martyrs" for their cause of creating a Southeast Asian caliphate.
"They're in good condition, healthy. It seems they're facing this calmly," Winahyo said.
Relatives bearing some of the bombers' favourite food were barred from entering Nusakambangan yesterday as they did not have permission from Jakarta.
Ali Fauzi, the younger brother of Amrozi and Mukhlas, blasted the authorities for refusing to let him deliver a message from their mother.
"I want to pass a message from my family to Amrozi and Mukhlas. My mother said for them to be patient, to be sincere and to accept their fate."AFP
But prosecutors said the appeal was invalid as the bombers - Amrozi, 47, his brother Mukhlas, 48, and Imam Samudra, 38 - had exhausted their legal options and must now die in line with their 2003 sentences.
"No more appeals can be accepted because the limit is only one," a spokesman for Indonesia's Attorney General's Office said, even though the bombers have had at least three appeals considered by the Indonesian courts.
Lawyer Imam Asmara Hadi said the appeal filed in Bali's Denpasar district court rested on the bombers' claim they had not been properly informed of the rejection of their previous petition.
Amid fears of violent protests, police stepped up security around Cilacap port connecting Java to the high-security Nusakambangan prison island where the bombers are believed to be just days or even hours away from execution.
Heavily armed police extended a no-go zone around the port and barred all traffic to the island in the latest sign that the executions are imminent.
Security has been tightened across the mainly Muslim archipelago due to concerns about revenge attacks from fanatics and the Jemaah Islamiyah regional terror network, allegedly behind the Bali carnage.
The bombings of packed nightspots on the resort island in 2002 killed mostly foreign tourists including 88 Australians, as well as 38 Indonesians.
Nusakambangan prison chief Bambang Winahyo said the bombers appeared to be calm and ready to die.
They have repeatedly assertions that they want to be "martyrs" for their cause of creating a Southeast Asian caliphate.
"They're in good condition, healthy. It seems they're facing this calmly," Winahyo said.
Relatives bearing some of the bombers' favourite food were barred from entering Nusakambangan yesterday as they did not have permission from Jakarta.
Ali Fauzi, the younger brother of Amrozi and Mukhlas, blasted the authorities for refusing to let him deliver a message from their mother.
"I want to pass a message from my family to Amrozi and Mukhlas. My mother said for them to be patient, to be sincere and to accept their fate."AFP
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