Condemned drug smugglers Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran are in good spirits and coping remarkably well as the clock ticks down towards their executions, one of their Australian lawyers says.
Michael O'Connell says it's appalling that Indonesia is moving the Bali Nine ringleaders to their place of execution when a final legal appeal and allegations of judicial corruption are yet to be resolved.
But the Melbourne barrister says as long as the men are alive, there's hope Indonesia will do the right thing.
"It's been very distressing to see what's happening this morning," he said of the chaotic scenes outside Bali's Kerobokan prison, as the men were driven away, bound for the island where they will be shot.
Mr O'Connell the men should not have been moved, given their legal team is pursuing an appeal in a Jakarta court.
He said there were also proceedings before a judicial commission, alleging judges in the trial that saw the pair sentenced to death, offered more lenient sentences in return for cash.
"It would be expected that Andrew and Myuran would give evidence about the allegations and about what happened in the earlier hearings, and obviously they can't do that if they were to be killed," Mr O'Connell told Fairfax radio.
"If Indonesia is to respect the rule of law then it can't proceed with these executions in these circumstances."
He said the mens' last night at Kerobokan jail was calm. "Both Myuran and Andrew were last night quite calm and in good spirits and really coping remarkably well given all of this terrible speculation about what will happen to them," he said.
Mr O'Connell said both men were extraordinary examples of how Indonesia's rehabilitation program could work.
"The objective of the Indonesian prison system, they say, is to try to rehabilitate people and change them.
"In Andrew and Myuran ... you've got these great success stories and the idea now that you should go out and kill them is very hard to fathom."
Sukumaran and Chan did not say a word when they were taken from Kerobokan prison for execution, authorities said.
Two armoured vehicles known as barracudas took the men from the Bali jail in the pre-dawn dark of Wednesday morning.
Komang Gede Tri Utama Aria, of Bali Provincial Law and Human Rights Office, said prison guards entered the men's cells to remove them.
"When they were picked up from cells, they didn't seem tense, they were relaxed," he said. "There was no fighting."
Michael Chan, center, a brother of Australian death row prisoner Andrew Chan stands outside a prison during his transfer in Bali, Indonesia today. Photo / Firdia Lisnawati AP
Prison governor Sudjonggo said the Bali Nine pair were aware it was time to go when guards entered the supermax cells.
"We didn't have to say 'wake up! Wake up,' they knew it was the morning because we had told them during the night."
The pair washed quickly and were dressed in less than ten minutes. After some administrative procedures, the Australians were handcuffed and taken to separate armoured vehicles each with 10 heavily-armed police.
Authorities say Chan was wearing a red training jacket and Sukumaran was wearing a black parachute jacket and both were wearing shorts.
Nyoman Putra Surya, Head of the Corrections Division at Bali Provincial Law and Human Rights Office said the men thanked authorities for their care while they were in Bali.
"They were ready," he said. "They even said thank you."
Mr Nyoman said the men smiled and shook their hands before they were searched and handcuffed. The pair said "not a word. We handcuffed them, they were silent," he said.
"We handcuffed them to the front. We didn't cover their eyes. We treated them well."
A chartered Lion Air flight will take the men to Cilacap, where they were expected to arrive at 7.30am.
Mr Nyoman defended the decision not to allow Chan's brother Michael into the jail as he men were leaving.
"Yesterday, we gave all day," he said. "Today was not visiting time. We gave the maximum chances last week. Myuran has said to his mother, he has promised that his sister and mother would meet him, in Cilacap. Tomorrow his mother will go to Cilacap."
