INDONESIA. DEATH ROW CHRISTIANS SEEK PRESIDENTIAL PARDON

three Indonesian Christians facing execution by firing squad due within days had submitted a second request for a presidential pardon.
The three had been found guilty in 2001 of murder, arson and several other crimes during sectarian violence in Indonesia's Central Sulawesi Province.
Indonesian President Yudhoyono rejected a plea for clemency in 2005 but court officials in the provincial capital Palu confirmed that a second request had been accepted from relatives of Fabianus Tibo, Dominggus da Silva and Marianus Riwu.
The Attorney-General's department said earlier it had planned to carry out the executions before the end of March.
Supporters claimed the men have been made scapegoats for the violence between Muslims and non-Muslims, which killed at least 1,000 people in 2000 and 2001.