Prisoners badly treated: Activists<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Rights activists reported yesterday that
\npolitical prisoners in a Jakarta prison have been mistreated
\ndespite their poor health.<\/p>\n
The activists from three human rights groups told the National
\nCommission on Human Rights that they knew of five ill political
\nprisoners at the Cipinang penitentiary who are badly treated.<\/p>\n
\"Guards insist on handcuffing them when they (the prisoners)
\nleave their cells for a medical checkup,\" said Gustaf Dupe from
\nthe Indonesian Society for Humanity.<\/p>\n
The society is a Christian organization which sends its
\nmembers to prisons on Sundays to lead prayers.<\/p>\n
Gustaf identified the prisoners as Fernando de Araujo, who was
\njailed for seeking East Timor's independence; elderly Abdul
\nLatif, Sukatno and Asep Suryawan, for their involvement in the
\nIndonesian Communist Party's attempted coup in 1965; and Eko
\nMaryadi, a member of the unrecognized Alliance of Independent
\nJournalists.<\/p>\n
The activists, who met with rights commission members B.N.
\nMarbun and Saafroedin Bahar, said that Fernando has a complex
\nillness of diabetes, kidney failure and heart disease.<\/p>\n
They said that prison wardens are ignoring United Nations
\nResolution No. 663 C 1957 and No. 2076 1977 concerning \"the
\nminimum standard in treating prisoners\".<\/p>\n
Andriyanto, from the outspoken Pijar Foundation, said that
\nprisoner Eko Maryadi's request to have a checkup outside of the
\npenitentiary was rejected without reason.<\/p>\n
Cipinang prison officials were not available for comment.
\n(16\/14)<\/p>",
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