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...Dutch university. But by the time the plane touched down at Schiphol, Munir was dead?poisoned, an autopsy revealed, by arsenic in his orange juice. Last week Indonesia's Supreme Court, declaring there was insufficient evidence, overturned the conviction and 14-year prison sentence of former Garuda pilot Pollycarpus Priyanto, the only suspect charged in Munir's death. Rights groups worldwide slammed the acquittal, with Human Rights Watch calling it a "failure of the Indonesian justice system...
...Supreme Court ruling also offers another chance for justice. Munir's supporters have always viewed Priyanto as the fall guy for a larger conspiracy to murder a man who spoke out against abuses of power by Indonesia's military and the former Suharto regime. Priyanto will walk free as early as March, after serving a two-year sentence for forging papers to get on Munir's flight. His release "could be a chance for us to determine who was really behind Munir's death and what role the intelligence services played," says Usman Hamid, coordinator of Kontras, the rights group...
...President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's pledge to run an open and accountable administration. Yudhoyono set up a 12-member commission consisting of human-rights activists, legal and justice department officials, and a police brigadier. Based on its early findings, police last week arrested a Garuda pilot, Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto, on suspicion of involvement in the activist's death...
...have been allowed to write books, been given space in the press to air their views and even been taken out for coffee by the police as part of an investigation. "We are not looking for revenge, but we do not feel that justice has been served," says Bambang Priyanto, the local traffic official who helped lead a critical rescue effort after the bombings. "The perpetrators who were sentenced to death should be put to death...
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