Brother speaks out against death penalty at world premiere of Bali 9 member Myuran Sukumaran's art show

<div style="text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhyphenhyphenxcgqtnoUqBEl97rFXpYNUJQt9uSAUURahBW752pQwW253GyPo5aVbG9DpmHQoNrMz8BgwRg8B3hJBLJgon7yjCASEJZNl8H9D75iQTQG7bm04mFZ4NdpMGPTzB51Wx5qR1NITNx2VE/s1600/Australian+lawyer+Julian+McMahon+with+three+self-portraits+by+Sukumaran+The+72+hours+just+started%252C+Strange+Day+and+Our+new+prints+A+bad+sleep+last+night-+Photo+Amilia+Rosa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Lawyer Julian McMahon with three self-portraits by Myuran Sukumaran" border="0" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhyphenhyphenxcgqtnoUqBEl97rFXpYNUJQt9uSAUURahBW752pQwW253GyPo5aVbG9DpmHQoNrMz8BgwRg8B3hJBLJgon7yjCASEJZNl8H9D75iQTQG7bm04mFZ4NdpMGPTzB51Wx5qR1NITNx2VE/s400/Australian+lawyer+Julian+McMahon+with+three+self-portraits+by+Sukumaran+The+72+hours+just+started%252C+Strange+Day+and+Our+new+prints+A+bad+sleep+last+night-+Photo+Amilia+Rosa.jpg" title="Lawyer Julian McMahon with three self-portraits by Myuran Sukumaran" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lawyer Julian McMahon with three self-portraits by Myuran Sukumaran</td></tr></tbody></table>The brother of executed Bali Nine member Myuran Sukumaran joined community leaders to speak out against the death penalty at the emotional world premiere of an art exhibition featuring his paintings in Campbelltown last night.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Chintu Sukumaran choked back tears as he told the hundreds of people who attended the opening night of the Myuran Sukumaran: <a href="http://deathpenaltynews.blogspot.com/2017/01/bali-nine-member-myuran-sukumarans-gut.html" target="_blank"><i>Another Day in Paradise</i> exhibition</a> that he and his family felt a cross between pride and anger to see his brother's emotive and thought-provoking artworks on display.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"We are proud that Myu's work is being shown to the world but we are angry that he is no longer with us," he said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Our family feel great sadness that his life was cut short so violently. We miss him all the time.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"It's important to stand up against the death penalty."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Mr Sukumaran, who attended the opening night with mum Raji and sister Brintha, said art gave his brother an outlet and the paintings showed the power of redemption.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Myuran Sukumaran found a passion for art and painted hundreds of portraits, including a series featuring each Bali 9 member, while incarcerated in Bali's Kerokoban Jail and from his final incarceration on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nusa_Kambangan" target="_blank">Nusakambangan Island</a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sukumaran and fellow Bali 9 member Andrew Chan were executed by Indonesian authorities on Nusakambangan Island in April 215.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Chan's brother Michael also attended the opening night of the exhibition, which is on display at Campbelltown Arts Centre as part of the Sydney Festival.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Mr Chan said the paintings were excellent and showcased what Sukumaran tried to do.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"He made mistakes but he rehabilitated and this is what you see," he said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Mr Chan said he and his family had their good days and bad days and he hoped something good would come out of the situation.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sukumaran's lawyer Julian McMahon also attended the launch and described how he watched his client mature from a naive and angry young man to a person who reformed and found a passion for art and tried to make life better for the other prisoners in the jail.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Campbelltown Mayor George Brticevic officially opened the exhibition and became emotional as he commended the bravery of the Sukumaran family for attending the event.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He said he had served as a police officer for 22 years and the attendance of the family at the opening night was the bravest thing he had seen.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYE30F1HaBFr83el0iruVXlxlRY6K41qm3GGNeT4TAaqAxnojX9NBYG1xXHHlhojEUC6zTZ4BJQCIvRSJSwLRKyOZdCgsZO7zZMR02noDNSRqF9W0dy3X6kiwe8BiSQmP2cqyWEuPe4vE/s1600/Another+Day+in+Paradise+Myuran+Sukumaran+Exhivition+JAN_2017.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYE30F1HaBFr83el0iruVXlxlRY6K41qm3GGNeT4TAaqAxnojX9NBYG1xXHHlhojEUC6zTZ4BJQCIvRSJSwLRKyOZdCgsZO7zZMR02noDNSRqF9W0dy3X6kiwe8BiSQmP2cqyWEuPe4vE/s400/Another+Day+in+Paradise+Myuran+Sukumaran+Exhivition+JAN_2017.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another Day in Paradise - Myuran Sukumaran's debut exhibition in Sydney</td></tr></tbody></table>Macarthur Federal Labor MP Mike Freelander and Fowler Federal Labor MP Chris Hayes, who served on the group Australian Parliamentarians against the Death Penalty, also attended the event and spoke out against capital punishment.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The exhibition was co-curated by Sukumaran's mentor, Archibald Prize winning artist, Ben Quilty, and Campbelltown Arts Centre director Michael Dagostino.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The series of self portraits are on display at Campbelltown Arts Centre as part of the Sydney Festival.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">One of the paintings featured in the series, The Final 72 Hours.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Quilty became emotional at the launch and thanked the arts centre and Campbelltown Council for being brave enough to stage the exhibition.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He said he hoped the exhibition <a href="http://deathpenaltynews.blogspot.com/2017/01/racism-death-penalty-and-myuran.html" target="_blank">blew the "haters" out of the water</a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Dagostino said he was keen for the arts centre to show thought-provoking works and become a vessel to discuss issues.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"This exhibition is proof that art can change lives," he said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Alongside Sukumaran's paintings, the arts centre commissioned works by 6 leading Australian artists which also explore the exhibition's themes and are displayed alongside his work.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The exhibition is free to enter and will be on show at Campbelltown Arts Centre until March 26.</div><br />Source: Daily Telegraph, January 14, 2017<br /><br /><b style="background-color: white; 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Brother speaks out against death penalty at world premiere of Bali 9 member Myuran Sukumaran's art show

Lawyer Julian McMahon with three self-portraits by Myuran Sukumaran The brother of executed Bali Nine member Myuran Sukumaran joined communi...

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Another Day in Paradise

<div style="text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF9TmpnfhTDGmO72WvIGIpMddgcZp0TzYaHJdMSKYdTfrYsRUnnvv6gLR0kZD0hoIl4Y96kb5oMEMatSH9cQVj8bkNGPXBJg7E5SrXeg7CKe4tdDZEKZyeWAPTLXudMbi3PlAvR_iKBXU/s1600/Australian+artist+Ben+Quilty+teaches+Sukumaran+to+paint+in+Kerobokan+Prison-+Photo+by+Jason+Childs.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Myuran Sukumaran (left) and Ben Quilty in Kerobokan's art workshop" border="0" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF9TmpnfhTDGmO72WvIGIpMddgcZp0TzYaHJdMSKYdTfrYsRUnnvv6gLR0kZD0hoIl4Y96kb5oMEMatSH9cQVj8bkNGPXBJg7E5SrXeg7CKe4tdDZEKZyeWAPTLXudMbi3PlAvR_iKBXU/s400/Australian+artist+Ben+Quilty+teaches+Sukumaran+to+paint+in+Kerobokan+Prison-+Photo+by+Jason+Childs.jpg" title="Myuran Sukumaran (left) and Ben Quilty in Kerobokan's art workshop" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Myuran Sukumaran (left) and Ben Quilty in Kerobokan's art workshop</td></tr></tbody></table><b>Artist Ben Quilty co-curated an exhibition of works by Bali-9 member Myuran Sukumaran. It's a bittersweet elegy to the redemptive magic of art.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Brushstrokes are declarations. Myuran Sukumaran’s swirls of paint, gingerly daubed onto canvas then layered heavily and deliberately are the markings of a man declaring his faith in the life-giving power of art – even as the prospect of death was closing in.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“When I first met Myuran, he was very humble, quite shy but had a fierce fire and thirst for knowledge about painting,” smiles Ben Quilty, who alongside Michael Dagostino, is the co-curator of <i>Another Day in Paradise</i>. The exhibition brings 100 paintings by Sukumaran, who was executed in April last year with fellow Bali Nine member Andrew Chan, to Sydney for the first time. “He wanted to learn, he wanted to do it. Although the Australian media fed us the message that he was this violent, aggressive enforcer, I met a big, quiet, strong person who was protecting huge swathes of people in that prison. Everyone really respected him. He’d become an extraordinary man.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Today, the galleries inside the Campbelltown Arts Centre, a short drive from Sukumaran’s old primary school, are dotted with works painted by the fledgling artist while he was incarcerated at Bali’s Kerobokan jail. Along the main wall, a series of self-portraits – one in which his image is doubled, another in which a skull floats above his supine body as a memento mori – are harrowing and powerful, hinting at a search for alternate psychological destinies, even as his external fate was fixed.<br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKgRoeRXsr_OJpP-MEUvM5mt0SBUN3a1bIb_rD25biW0i0yePiweI13rRVqbkXC6WdCPvNXFY-arSQ9Nm2ucqb0pD-5i9cA6jAcjaDA1QNiFgzB-I0RFloxbbZELe44lCsB15HAL81xDE/s1600/Myuran+Sukumaran+at+Kerobokan+Prison.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Myuran Sukumaran" border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKgRoeRXsr_OJpP-MEUvM5mt0SBUN3a1bIb_rD25biW0i0yePiweI13rRVqbkXC6WdCPvNXFY-arSQ9Nm2ucqb0pD-5i9cA6jAcjaDA1QNiFgzB-I0RFloxbbZELe44lCsB15HAL81xDE/s400/Myuran+Sukumaran+at+Kerobokan+Prison.jpg" title="Myuran Sukumaran" width="275" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Myuran Sukumaran</td></tr></tbody></table>A body of work entitled <i>The Last 72 Hours</i>, made during his final imprisonment on Nusa Kambangan Island, is harder to take in without blinking back tears. Australian artists Abdul-Rahman Abdullah, Megan Cope, Jagath Dheerasekara, Taloi Havini, Matthew Sleeth and Khaled Sabsabi were also invited to respond to Sukumaran’s paintings with pieces that call for empathy as well as the importance of human rights.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Painting is like learning to write and if you have a lot to say, you need to learn how to use language,” says Quilty, who became close friends with Sukumaran and later, the biggest advocate for his plea for clemency, after he received an email from his Melbourne barrister seeking advice on new painting techniques. “His language was visual and he wanted to learn how to use it, to speak about who he was. He was a quiet man with a big smile but there was a lot going on. He’d studied philosophy and thought through all the different aspects of what had led him to this gruesome predicament. He wanted to be able to talk about it.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Quilty, who counts a portrait series of Indonesian and Australian politicians among the artist’s most moving pieces, also believes that the lack of public empathy around Chan and Sukuraman is more complex than it first appears.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Part of it is due to the colour of Myuran’s skin,” he says, with a pause. “A lot of the criticism Andrew and Myuran received wouldn’t have been leveled at European inmates. I feel as if he looked the way I did, if he was a sixth-generation Irish-Australian, there would have been a far less brutal response in the Australian public. Painting those politicians was so pivotal for him; he had been painting self-portraits but he wanted to engage with the prime ministers of Australia and the president of Indonesia, who’d become the protagonists of his life and future. I want people think more broadly about compassion in our community. Because there are people here who hated him until the moment he died. I want them to come to this exhibition and respond to his humanity. The suggestion that all men who deal drugs should be executed is brutal, simplistic bullshit that needs to be called out.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">For Quilty, whose own artistic trajectory has sought the darker corners of what it means to be a young man in Australia, it’s Sukumaran’s brushstrokes that matter now.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Myuran was just on a mission to learn how to harness his visual language and in the last 72 hours you got the sense that he was on fire,” he says. “As an artist, you start to get a sense that through a practice you are leaving a legacy, and if you’re sensitive and passionate and good, that legacy will outlive you. They took his life but he had a voice and that voice will continue reverberating after he’s gone.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Another Day in Paradise</i> shows at the Campbelltown Arts Centre, as part of the <a href="https://www.broadsheet.com.au/sydney/entertainment/article/sydney-festival" target="_blank">Sydney Festival</a>, from January 13 to March 26, 2017.</div><br />Source: <a href="https://www.broadsheet.com.au/sydney/art-and-design/article/another-day-paradise" target="_blank">Broadsheet</a>, Neha Kale, January 12, 2017<br /><br /><b>➤ Related content:</b><br /><ul><li><a href="http://deathpenaltynews.blogspot.com/2017/01/art-on-death-row-its-good-evil-vanilla.html" target="_blank">Art on death row: ‘it’s good, evil, vanilla ... all things in what we humans call life’</a>, January 12, 2017</li><li><a href="http://deathpenaltynews.blogspot.com/2017/01/bali-nine-member-myuran-sukumarans-gut.html" target="_blank">Bali Nine Member Myuran Sukumaran's Gut-Wrenching Exhibition Opens</a>, January 11, 2017</li><li><a href="http://deathpenaltynews.blogspot.com/2017/01/racism-death-penalty-and-myuran.html" target="_blank">Racism, the death penalty and Myuran Sukumaran</a>, January 9, 2017</li><li><a href="http://deathpenaltynews.blogspot.com/2017/01/mother-of-bali-nine-member-myuran.html" target="_blank">Mother of Bali Nine member Myuran Sukumaran wants people to remember him through art</a>, January 6, 2017</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: center;">⚑ | Report an error, an omission; suggest a story or a new angle to an existing story; submit a piece; recommend a resource; contact the webmaster, contact us: <a href="mailto:deathpenaltynews@gmail.com">deathpenaltynews@gmail.com</a>.</div><br /><table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="4" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px solid rgb(255, 204, 0); color: black; text-align: center; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr> <td><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/WebDPN/" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL4sspwgGptzvuHVklum5TwxKppRN-lIC5TN8RLZFq_B4ZOtBrX1ssXPNKQ6XpSyQFRJRtVQN45HMkpt3VX0JtOW0TovwxZAurG-AV6gh98IAXo7Ip6QlpkZr9WrM3_m943Mwy-gGxBAY/s1600/Find+us+Facebook.jpg" /></a></div></td> <td><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://twitter.com/WebDPN" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiULIPEaT_P6oIauxAZd17XRRxljesDLS7iIjdQXT7Xct99uHeohx4IYmiAB6S044gTjMDGSy50sL2vDzOyPZ-3vJj9zwcYQ2rgzJh9v1-QDiunKAQtLLLqJ83s38qN3HABxGIC8GsIOD0/s1600/Find+us+twitter.jpg" /></a><span id="goog_1427852018"></span><span id="goog_1427852019"></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/"></a></div></td> </tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><b>Opposed to Capital Punishment? 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Another Day in Paradise

Myuran Sukumaran (left) and Ben Quilty in Kerobokan's art workshop Artist Ben Quilty co-curated an exhibition of works by Bali-9 member ...

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We know how to prevent another Bali 9 case, but the blueprint is gathering dust

<div style="text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYE30F1HaBFr83el0iruVXlxlRY6K41qm3GGNeT4TAaqAxnojX9NBYG1xXHHlhojEUC6zTZ4BJQCIvRSJSwLRKyOZdCgsZO7zZMR02noDNSRqF9W0dy3X6kiwe8BiSQmP2cqyWEuPe4vE/s1600/Another+Day+in+Paradise+Myuran+Sukumaran+Exhivition+JAN_2017.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Another Day in Paradise - Myuran Sukumaran's exhibition opens in Sydney." border="0" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYE30F1HaBFr83el0iruVXlxlRY6K41qm3GGNeT4TAaqAxnojX9NBYG1xXHHlhojEUC6zTZ4BJQCIvRSJSwLRKyOZdCgsZO7zZMR02noDNSRqF9W0dy3X6kiwe8BiSQmP2cqyWEuPe4vE/s400/Another+Day+in+Paradise+Myuran+Sukumaran+Exhivition+JAN_2017.jpg" title="Another Day in Paradise - Myuran Sukumaran's exhibition opens in Sydney." width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another Day in Paradise - Myuran Sukumaran's exhibition opens in Sydney.</td></tr></tbody></table>This week Sydneysiders will have their first opportunity to view the hauntingly beautiful artworks painted by Myuran Sukumaran during his final days on death row in Bali's Kerobokan prison.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">While the exhibition, <a href="http://www.sydneyfestival.org.au/2017/myuran" target="_blank">Another Day in </a><a href="http://www.sydneyfestival.org.au/2017/myuran">Paradise</a> which opens at the Campbelltown Arts Centre on Friday, is a chance to reflect on his life and the brutality of the death penalty, we mustn't shy away from a difficult home truth: the Australian Federal Police's role in his death.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In April 2015, <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/world/bali-9-executions-andrew-chan-and-myuran-sukumaran-shot-dead-in-indonesia-20150428-1mvjj8.html" target="_blank">Indonesia executed Sukumaran</a> by firing squad, alongside Andrew Chan, a fellow member of the so-called Bali Nine who had also been convicted of drug trafficking offences.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The execution of the two men united Australia against the death penalty as never before. The men's rehabilitation during their 10 years in prison, as well as the harshness of the ultimate penalty, had struck a chord. Hundreds of thousands of Australians campaigned for mercy and gathered together for candlelight vigils and protests around the country.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Australian government, to its great credit, advocated strongly for a stay of the executions. After the men were killed, Australia removed its ambassador to Indonesia in protest.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Later that year, the Australian government confirmed its commitment to working towards global abolition of the death penalty, making that cause a key part of its bid for a seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council, the world's premiere human rights body.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Australia has not executed anyone for nearly 50 years. (It will be 50 years since Ronald Ryan's execution in February.) As a nation, we can and should be a global leader on this issue.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Yet in the midst of our shared grief and pain, and the government's apparent willingness to lead internationally, there remains a nagging issue: it was a tip-off from the AFP that led to the Bali Nine's arrest in the first place. It was the AFP that requested that the Indonesian National Police gather evidence and keep the Bali Nine under surveillance.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHugLCU1JMZapvR-lQgx-8J7dFCxwY4VvuVjHw674O07VS_awxQhYMIW41iG4JgtYL_gKW9GcqpJJMKYZL1m4qUBz410SJfTmNLQKd5KFFgsw9dWcTu_qNkeOmeVeFv5dbVza0DHjQ2gBw/s1600/Australian+Federal+Police+badge.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHugLCU1JMZapvR-lQgx-8J7dFCxwY4VvuVjHw674O07VS_awxQhYMIW41iG4JgtYL_gKW9GcqpJJMKYZL1m4qUBz410SJfTmNLQKd5KFFgsw9dWcTu_qNkeOmeVeFv5dbVza0DHjQ2gBw/s1600/Australian+Federal+Police+badge.jpg" /></a></div>Under current laws and guidelines, if the Bali Nine case happened again tomorrow, nothing would prevent the AFP from acting in exactly the same way. In fact, the AFP has <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-05-04/renshaw-bali-9-and-the-afp/6443692" target="_blank">confirmed</a> its view that its actions in the Bali Nine case were not only lawful, but also the right thing to do.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The AFP has strong law enforcement ties with police services in neighbouring countries. Undoubtedly much of its international co-operation is for good and valid reasons.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">However, elements of the AFP's co-operation place people in harm's way. <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/comment/the-afp-peddles-injustice-by-helping-asian-death-penalty-states-20150902-gjdvu3.html" target="_blank">Evidence</a> suggests that the AFP knowingly shares information with death penalty states and in so doing puts 370 people a year at risk of execution, 95 per cent of which is for drug offences.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The AFP's ongoing information-sharing with foreign police in death penalty cases, represents Australia's complicity in the very practice it seeks to stamp out. It is a stain on our track record and a blight our legitimacy to lead in the global eradication of this inhumane practice. It's time we cleaned it up.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Fortunately, a way forward has been prepared and agreed across the political divide. It just needs to be implemented.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">In 2016, a parliamentary committee chaired by Philip Ruddock presented a blueprint to ensure that Australia works comprehensively to abolish the death penalty worldwide. The committee's report, "<a href="http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Joint/Foreign_Affairs_Defence_and_Trade/Death_Penalty/Report" target="_blank">A world without the death penalty</a>", made 13 recommendations that must be implemented immediately in order to position Australia as a smart, sophisticated international leader on the issue.</div></div><br /><a href="http://www.smh.com.au/comment/the-afp-policy-that-lead-to-the-bali-9-execution-still-hasnt-been-changed-20170111-gtpd49.html"><b>Click here to read the full article</b></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Source: The Sydney Morning Herald, Emily Howie, January 12, 2017. 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We know how to prevent another Bali 9 case, but the blueprint is gathering dust

Another Day in Paradise - Myuran Sukumaran's exhibition opens in Sydney. This week Sydneysiders will have their first opportunity to vie...

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Bali Nine Member Myuran Sukumaran's Gut-Wrenching Exhibition Opens

<div style="text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoYQrHuLIq3jzAbsb3mUXv8QRd74rpyOdwSrpJI96gtLxJ_xjWmH8yAlFAKQOEzkQLFXE4kt9H0CdgWMFWCXvzXf7BNnmKwoelrpIEHD5r5-8TNHWklLB7rv1KHSHjQKCsX5CaZ9B72QA/s1600/Another+Day+in+Paradise+Myuran+Sukumaran+Exhivition+JAN_2017.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="'Another Day in Paradise' - Myuran Sukumaran's exhibition opens in Sydney" border="0" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoYQrHuLIq3jzAbsb3mUXv8QRd74rpyOdwSrpJI96gtLxJ_xjWmH8yAlFAKQOEzkQLFXE4kt9H0CdgWMFWCXvzXf7BNnmKwoelrpIEHD5r5-8TNHWklLB7rv1KHSHjQKCsX5CaZ9B72QA/s400/Another+Day+in+Paradise+Myuran+Sukumaran+Exhivition+JAN_2017.jpg" title="'Another Day in Paradise' - Myuran Sukumaran's exhibition opens in Sydney" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Another Day in Paradise' - Myuran Sukumaran's exhibition opens in Sydney</td></tr></tbody></table>The title for the first major exhibition of art works by Myuran Sukumaran, <b><a href="http://www.sydneyfestival.org.au/2017/myuran" target="_blank">Another Day in Paradise</a></b>, came directly from the executed drug smuggler himself.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Those words appeared in a subject line of an email sent to artist and Sukumaran’s mentor Ben Quilty, following a particularly violent riot at Bali’s Kerobokan Prison.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">For the last four years of Sukumaran’s life, he ran an art studio within the prison and taught lessons to his fellow inmates. Sukumaran had access to the prison’s medical facility so that he could test participants for drugs (if there were drugs found within the art studio it would be shut down), which meant that when the riot broke out it was he who had to help.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“There was a machete wound to a man’s leg,” Quilty says. “He sent me these very grainy iPhone photos of him sewing up a man’s leg, and there was just blood everywhere, and the email subject line was ‘another day in paradise’.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Now, almost two years after Sukumaran’s death, Quilty is opening the exhibition, featuring more than 100 of Sukumaran’s works completed in prison, alongside pieces commissioned from other artists (Abdul-Rahman Abdullah, Megan Cope, Jagarth Dheerasekara, Taloi Havini, Khaled Sabsabi and Matthew Sleeth).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Quilty co-curated the exhibition with Michael Dagostino, the director of Campbelltown Arts Centre, where the show opens this weekend as part of Sydney Festival. Dagostino says he was compelled to host the exhibition in Campbelltown given that Sukumaran grew up in western Sydney, where his family still lives.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“<a href="http://deathpenaltynews.blogspot.fr/2017/01/racism-death-penalty-and-myuran.html" target="_blank">Myuran’s story is a western Sydney story, one of redemption through immense adversity</a>,” he says.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">But it’s still a rather gutsy move on the part of both Sydney Festival and Campbelltown Arts Centre to exhibit the works of such a controversial figure.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Although there was plenty of support in Australia for Sukumaran and his fellow executed Bali Nine member Andrew Chan (who features in the exhibition), the community was clearly divided. A poll held three months before Sukumaran’s execution asking “if an Australian is convicted of drug trafficking in another country and sentenced to death, should the penalty be carried out?” received a 52% affirmative response from Australians.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“There are still a lot of haters in the community,” Quilty says. “And I invite them all with very open arms to come along to this exhibition, and I challenge them to walk away from this exhibition filled with the same hatred towards my mate as they had in the lead-up to his execution.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sukumaran became a prolific painter in his final years within the prison, and the exhibition features plenty of never-before-seen works, and a wall of paintings made during his last 72 hours of life.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">One of the works from those final hours sits on the floor, against the wall. Dagostino says that it symbolises Sukumaran’s unfinished business.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYdUPkfQ0EFbjBhGlArzDrZALWiK9QfLHMY-PRyvvm2BZxWxEVWNQo5ja2QaHxDDihS470c5iSLpo_L9q0QeBYuSMERZO54Y9dG3jieVcaDnTXdsjytPn7k7cjCJp8dq8VcG6gp_DN6-4/s1600/Myuran+Sukumaran%2527s+final+painting+Indonesian+Flag.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="The Indonesian flag, by Myuran Sukumaran" border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYdUPkfQ0EFbjBhGlArzDrZALWiK9QfLHMY-PRyvvm2BZxWxEVWNQo5ja2QaHxDDihS470c5iSLpo_L9q0QeBYuSMERZO54Y9dG3jieVcaDnTXdsjytPn7k7cjCJp8dq8VcG6gp_DN6-4/s400/Myuran+Sukumaran%2527s+final+painting+Indonesian+Flag.jpg" title="The Indonesian flag, by Myuran Sukumaran" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Indonesian flag, by Myuran Sukumaran</td></tr></tbody></table>While the exhibition features less than half of Sukumaran’s total output, it includes key works known to the public, including his final painting: an Indonesian flag realised with thick red paint, seeming to bleed. The back of the canvas was signed by all nine prisoners facing execution that day.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Quilty believes that Sukumaran was only just starting to find his own “unique visual language” when he was executed, but that the exhibition demonstrates something quite profound.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“I hope that this show goes a long way to showing not only the healing quality of what an art practice can do, but how much a visual language can change and alter the world, and make people think in a different way,” he says.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">When Quilty first came into contact with Sukumaran, he gave him a pile of art books to help him refine his painting skills. He says he’s never seen somebody develop their craft at such speed.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Myuran was the first person to read those art books from beginning to end. I only looked at the pictures. He read every single word in every art book that I gave him,” Quilty says.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He also advised Sukumaran to turn the mirror on himself, because he was the most interesting subject that he had. One large wall in the exhibition features 36 self portraits, all grappling with different ways of looking at oneself.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">But his subjects also include his fellow inmates, all of the Bali Nine, his close friends and family members, and even the Australian and Indonesian politicians involved in the diplomatic negotiations concerning his case.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">What seems clear is that the exhibition will have a great emotional impact on many who visit, no matter where they stand on the death penalty and the Bali Nine case.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">But Quilty says this is a brave and courageous starting point for Sukumaran’s artistic legacy.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“If Myuran only knew that this show was here, with these six extraordinary artists responding … I promised him that this would happen, but to know that it’s happened on this scale …”<br /><br /><b><a href="http://www.sydneyfestival.org.au/2017/myuran" target="_blank">Another Day in Paradise</a></b><i> is at Campbelltown Arts Centre from January 13 to March 26. Entry is free.</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Source: <a href="https://dailyreview.com.au/executed-bali-nine-member-myuran-sukumarans-gut-wrenching-debut-exhibition-opens/54586/" target="_blank">Daily Review</a>, Ben Neutze, January 11, 2017. Ben Neutze is Deputy Editor of Daily Review. He has previously written for Time Out Sydney, The Guardian Australia and Limelight Magazine.<br /><br /><br /><b>➤ Recommended reading:</b> <a href="http://deathpenaltynews.blogspot.fr/2017/01/racism-death-penalty-and-myuran.html" target="_blank">Racism, the death penalty and Myuran Sukumaran</a>, Ben Quilty, December 24, 2016</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">⚑ | Report an error, an omission; suggest a story or a new angle to an existing story; submit a piece; recommend a resource; contact the webmaster, contact us: <a href="mailto:deathpenaltynews@gmail.com">deathpenaltynews@gmail.com</a>.</div><br /><table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="4" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px solid rgb(255, 204, 0); color: black; text-align: center; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr> <td><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/WebDPN/" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL4sspwgGptzvuHVklum5TwxKppRN-lIC5TN8RLZFq_B4ZOtBrX1ssXPNKQ6XpSyQFRJRtVQN45HMkpt3VX0JtOW0TovwxZAurG-AV6gh98IAXo7Ip6QlpkZr9WrM3_m943Mwy-gGxBAY/s1600/Find+us+Facebook.jpg" /></a></div></td> <td><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://twitter.com/WebDPN" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiULIPEaT_P6oIauxAZd17XRRxljesDLS7iIjdQXT7Xct99uHeohx4IYmiAB6S044gTjMDGSy50sL2vDzOyPZ-3vJj9zwcYQ2rgzJh9v1-QDiunKAQtLLLqJ83s38qN3HABxGIC8GsIOD0/s1600/Find+us+twitter.jpg" /></a><span id="goog_1427852018"></span><span id="goog_1427852019"></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/"></a></div></td> </tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><b>Opposed to Capital Punishment? 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Bali Nine Member Myuran Sukumaran's Gut-Wrenching Exhibition Opens

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Mother of Bali Nine member Myuran Sukumaran wants people to remember him through art

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKgRoeRXsr_OJpP-MEUvM5mt0SBUN3a1bIb_rD25biW0i0yePiweI13rRVqbkXC6WdCPvNXFY-arSQ9Nm2ucqb0pD-5i9cA6jAcjaDA1QNiFgzB-I0RFloxbbZELe44lCsB15HAL81xDE/s1600/Myuran+Sukumaran+at+Kerobokan+Prison.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Myuran Sukumaran" border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKgRoeRXsr_OJpP-MEUvM5mt0SBUN3a1bIb_rD25biW0i0yePiweI13rRVqbkXC6WdCPvNXFY-arSQ9Nm2ucqb0pD-5i9cA6jAcjaDA1QNiFgzB-I0RFloxbbZELe44lCsB15HAL81xDE/s400/Myuran+Sukumaran+at+Kerobokan+Prison.jpg" title="Myuran Sukumaran" width="275" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Myuran Sukumaran</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;">The mother of executed Bali Nine drug smuggler Myuran Sukumaran wants her son's artwork to travel the world as a powerful anti-death penalty message.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Speaking to 7.30 for the first time since Sukumaran's death in Indonesia in 2015, Raji Sukumaran said her once staunch-faith in God had been shaken by the execution of her son.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">She recalled trying to enjoy her time with him as she watched him painting in prison, first in Bali then on the execution island of Nusakambangan.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"I used to sit behind him and watch him for hours and hours," Ms Sukumaran said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"He spent so much time and he was so proud of it. The last paintings, he said, 'If I had another two years! If I have another six months! I could do better'."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Her son's last days and hours play like a film on Ms Sukumaran's mind.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"I told him to go and have a rest. I told him to go and have a shower and have a rest and what for? He was going to be taken and shot.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"And I also remember telling Myu at the last minute, 'pray darling,' that God can do miracles, he can perform miracles, pray.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"And he looked at me and said, 'Amma, I will pray, but whether miracle happens or not, you continue to pray'.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"And at that point I thought, 'he's given up'."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ms Sukumaran said praying was something she could no longer do.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Even God didn't help me. The Government couldn't help. They couldn't do anything," she said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"[Indonesian President Joko Widodo was] the only person who could have showed compassion and he didn't."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sukumaran was executed by firing squad alongside Andrew Chan in April 2015, after the pair was convicted for attempting to smuggle eight kilograms of heroin from Indonesia to Australia.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: justify;">'His studio was his church'</h3><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The paintings Myuran created in prison now form part of a major exhibition in Sydney curated by his friend and mentor, artist Ben Quilty.</div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghpzasb_jFgNfvgLRhX1x87xA3nwRQ0IeGmWMsKuO0PFF90EwPSOuHWn-Q8yLT_DfSCG54QAZLdUor1hWAVqgL-JcTVnW5wrDAGSt_k6iBi-AmSkjQd1pHQSjGuTPnuxfDsWaGh-41RTI/s1600/Raji+Sukumaran+is+comforted+by+a+family+member+after+holding+a+press+conference+at+the+Grand+Liana+after+seeing+her+son+and+Bali+9+ringleader+Myuran+Sukumaran+for+the+last+time+before+his+execution.+Picture+by+Adam+Taylor.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Myuran's mother, Raji Sukumaran" border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghpzasb_jFgNfvgLRhX1x87xA3nwRQ0IeGmWMsKuO0PFF90EwPSOuHWn-Q8yLT_DfSCG54QAZLdUor1hWAVqgL-JcTVnW5wrDAGSt_k6iBi-AmSkjQd1pHQSjGuTPnuxfDsWaGh-41RTI/s400/Raji+Sukumaran+is+comforted+by+a+family+member+after+holding+a+press+conference+at+the+Grand+Liana+after+seeing+her+son+and+Bali+9+ringleader+Myuran+Sukumaran+for+the+last+time+before+his+execution.+Picture+by+Adam+Taylor.jpg" title="Myuran's mother, Raji Sukumaran" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Myuran's mother, Raji Sukumaran</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"I am really proud of him. His painting was his life," Ms Sukumaran said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"I want [the exhibition] to travel around the world and I want people to see his painting and I want people to see him through the painting.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"He was only in this world for a short time but he accomplished a lot."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Quilty visited Sukumaran many times in Kerobokan Prison in Bali. He said painting was Myuran's "solace".</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"His studio was his church," Quilty said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"It was the way he could sort those problems out could come up with, in a sense, visual answers, about the strength of the human condition, the strength inside Myuran Sukumaran.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Myuran Sukumaran's art exhibition, <b><a href="http://www.sydneyfestival.org.au/2017/myuran" target="_blank">Another Day in Paradise</a></b>, opens at Sydney's Campbelltown Arts Centre next week.</div><br />Source: <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-06/myuran-sukumaran-bali-nine-mum-wants-people-to-see-him-in-art/8166806" target="_blank">abc.net.au</a>, Louise Milligan, January 6, 2017<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">⚑ | Report an error, an omission; suggest a story or a new angle to an existing story; submit a piece; recommend a resource; contact the webmaster, contact us: <a href="mailto:deathpenaltynews@gmail.com">deathpenaltynews@gmail.com</a>.</div><br /><table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="4" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px solid rgb(255, 204, 0); color: black; text-align: center; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr> <td><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/WebDPN/" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL4sspwgGptzvuHVklum5TwxKppRN-lIC5TN8RLZFq_B4ZOtBrX1ssXPNKQ6XpSyQFRJRtVQN45HMkpt3VX0JtOW0TovwxZAurG-AV6gh98IAXo7Ip6QlpkZr9WrM3_m943Mwy-gGxBAY/s1600/Find+us+Facebook.jpg" /></a></div></td> <td><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://twitter.com/WebDPN" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiULIPEaT_P6oIauxAZd17XRRxljesDLS7iIjdQXT7Xct99uHeohx4IYmiAB6S044gTjMDGSy50sL2vDzOyPZ-3vJj9zwcYQ2rgzJh9v1-QDiunKAQtLLLqJ83s38qN3HABxGIC8GsIOD0/s1600/Find+us+twitter.jpg" /></a><span id="goog_1427852018"></span><span id="goog_1427852019"></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/"></a></div></td> </tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><b>Opposed to Capital Punishment? 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Mother of Bali Nine member Myuran Sukumaran wants people to remember him through art

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