JAKARTA -- This week's execution of three Islamic militants convicted over the 2002 Bali bombings will be delayed as the men will file an appeal, the spokesman for Indonesia's attorney general said Monday.Amrozi, Ali Ghufron and Imam Samudra were to be shot by firing squad on Tuesday for their key roles in the attacks which killed 202 people and were blamed on the Al-Qaeda linked Jemaah Islamiyah extremist network. "It is better to delay the execution because we have to respect the legal rights of the defendants to file a judicial review appeal, and the process itself is already in motion," spokesman I Wayan Pasek Suartha told Agence France-Presse. Their lawyer Qadhar Faisal has said that court officials were present at a meeting with the prisoners last week when they decided to file the appeal, meaning the procedure was in progress and the execution could not go ahead. The appeal is being based on an argument that the constitutional court has ruled since their trial that the terror laws introduced after the bombings, under which they were convicted, could not be used retroactively. The men are being held at the island jail of Nusakambangan, off the south coast of Central Java in Cilacap district. Faisal told AFP on Monday that the request for the review -- the trio's last avenue of appeal -- would be submitted to the Cilacap district court on Wednesday. Prosecutors had already sent a letter to the families of the convicts notifying them of the execution date, set for Tuesday, provided they opted to waive their right to request a case review. More than 30 Indonesians were convicted over the 2002 attacks, which targeted western holidaymakers and opened a Southeast Asian front in the so-called "war on terror" by the United States and its allies. | 
