'I am haunted': Indonesia death row prisoners allege they were tortured to confess

By Jewel Topsfield
Updated May 12 2016 - 2:23am, first published 1:51am
Lim Jit Wee's hand. Photo: Jewel Topsfield
Lim Jit Wee's hand. Photo: Jewel Topsfield
Death row inmate Lim Jit Wee, who alleges he was tortured into implicating a man he didn't know in a drug case. Photo: Jewel Topsfield
Death row inmate Lim Jit Wee, who alleges he was tortured into implicating a man he didn't know in a drug case. Photo: Jewel Topsfield
Christian, who is seeking a judicial review of his drug importation charges on the grounds he was tortured and convicted on false evidence.  Photo: Jewel Topsfield
Christian, who is seeking a judicial review of his drug importation charges on the grounds he was tortured and convicted on false evidence. Photo: Jewel Topsfield
Lim Jit Wee takes an oath before testifying in West Jakarta District Court that he didn't know Christian at the time of his arrest.  Photo: Jewel Topsfield
Lim Jit Wee takes an oath before testifying in West Jakarta District Court that he didn't know Christian at the time of his arrest. Photo: Jewel Topsfield

Jakarta: Two fingers on Lim Jit Wee's right hand are ugly stumps; a legacy, he says, of the torture that led to him falsely implicating a man he had never met in a crime punishable by death in Indonesia.

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