One of the key legal cases delaying the executions of 10 drug felons in Indonesia including the Bali nine duo has been rejected by the Supreme Court.
The case review of Filipina maid Mary Jane Veloso was expected to take up to three months, buying time for all those on death row including Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran.
However Supreme Court spokesman Ridwan Mansyur confirmed the judicial review request had been rejected on Wednesday.
Although others facing the firing squad still have outstanding legal proceedings, Veloso had been considered by her legal team to have a strong chance of having her death sentence commuted.
"She is innocent, she did not know what she was doing," lawyer Agus Salim told Rappler in an interview on March 20. "She's a victim."
Veloso, a mother of two, was sentenced to death in 2010 for attempting to smuggle 2.6 kilograms of heroin from Malaysia to Yogyakarta.
She maintains she was deceived by an acquaintance and did not know the drugs were in the lining of her suitcase.
Her lawyers argued she deserved a case review because the translator during her trial was only a student who did not have a licence from the Association of Indonesian Translators.
Mr Ridwan said the ruling had been published on the Supreme Court's website however the legal consideration leading to the decision was still being processed.
A spokesman for Attorney-General H. M. Prasetyo confirmed officers from the Attorney-General's office were visiting Nusakambangan - the site of the executions - on Friday but denied the visit was related to the executions.
Spokesman Tony Spontana said the decision on Veloso did not necessarily mean the executions would be held soon.
"We are still waiting for all legal processes to be completed," he said.
Lawyers for Chan and Sukumaran will return to the administrative court on Monday with an expert witness who will argue that the court has the jurisdiction to hear the men's appeal.
The court has previously thrown out their legal challenge to President Joko Widodo's rejection of their clemency pleas on the grounds it does not have the authority to make a ruling.
This is now being appealed in the same court. A decision is expected in early April.
Others with legal processes still underway include Frenchman Serge Atlaoui, Martin Anderson from Ghana and Nigerian Raheem Agbaje Salami.
The Indonesian government has repeatedly said its preference is to kill all 10 drug felons simultaneously because staggered executions would affect the psychological state of those on death row.
