Police officers deny torture accusations<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Two police detectives told the West Jakarta
\nDistrict Court on Thursday that they did not physically or
\nmentally intimidate drug defendant Donny Hendrian during the
\npreparation of his affidavit for alleged drug possession.<\/p>\n
Chief detectives Sgt. Soeharto and Sgt. Prijono Abdi Darmo of
\nthe West Jakarta Police, said they questioned the defendant
\naccording to police procedure.<\/p>\n
\"I did not intimidate the defendant either mentally or
\nphysically during the affidavit process.<\/p>\n
\"During the investigation, I only asked him questions and then
\ntyped out his testimony of the case,\" Soeharto told a hearing
\npresided over by Judge Hadi Lelana.<\/p>\n
The hearing was held to verify the defendant's testimony from
\nthe previous session where the defendant accused the police of
\ntorturing him during the investigation process.<\/p>\n
The defendant accused the two questioning detectives of
\nforcing him to make statements during the investigation process
\nin favor of the police's interest. The investigation started on
\nAug. 8, 1999.<\/p>\n
Donny said at a previous hearing that a suspected drug dealer,
\nA Chiang, was in a different hotel room in West Jakarta when he
\nand an alleged accomplice, Army Second Lt. Agus Isrok, were
\narrested by police detectives earlier on the same day in room
\n408.<\/p>\n
\"But the police did not put my statement about A Chiang's
\npresence in the hotel in the dossiers,\" Donny said.<\/p>\n
A Chiang is still at large.<\/p>\n
The police seized several items from the hotel room, including
\n1.6 kilograms of shabu-shabu (crystal methamphetamine), 6,218
\necstasy pills, 27.9 grams of heroin and 25 sachets of valium
\npills.<\/p>\n
Agus, a member of the Army's Special Force (Kopassus), is
\nscheduled to be tried at the city's military court.<\/p>\n
Prijono also supported Soeharto's statement, saying that the
\npolice had conducted the investigation in a professional manner.<\/p>\n
\"I feel that I did not commit the wrongdoing as accused by the
\ndefendant. We conducted the investigation according to
\nprocedure,\" he said.<\/p>\n
The defendant, who was requested by Judge Hadi to respond to
\nthe witnesses' testimonies, conceded that it was not Soeharto and
\nPrijono who intimidated him.<\/p>\n
\"But Prijono saw two other police personnel hit me during the
\ninvestigation process,\" he said, identifying the two officers as
\nAgung and Nyoman.<\/p>\n
But Prijono denied it.<\/p>\n
\"I didn't see the two police personnel hit him. If it
\nhappened, it was not of my knowledge, because I was busy dealing
\nwith another five criminal cases at the time,\" he said.<\/p>\n
The judge adjourned the hearing until March 20 to allow the
\nprosecutor to read the charges. (asa)<\/p>",
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