Dorfin, 35, was arrested in September carrying the suitcase filled with about three kilograms of ecstasy and amphetamine pills at the airport in Lombok, a holiday island next to Bali where foreigners are routinely arrested on drugs charges.While prosecutors had not asked for the death penalty, Indonesian courts have been known to go beyond their demands.
“After finding Felix Dorfin legally and convincingly guilty of importing narcotics... is sentenced to the death penalty,” presiding judge Isnurul Syamsul Arif told the court. He cited Dorfin’s involvement in an international drug syndicate and the amount of drugs in his possession as aggravating factors.Indonesia has not executed anyone since 2016, but a number of foreigners are still on death row including a cocaine-smuggling British grandmother and Serge Atlaoui, a Frenchman who has been on death row since 2007. — AFP