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        "id": 1150252,
        "msgid": "rights-tribunal-law-not-retroactive-1447893297",
        "date": "2005-03-04 00:00:00",
        "title": "Rights tribunal law not retroactive",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Rights tribunal law not retroactive JAKARTA: The Constitutional Court rejected on Thursday a challenge by former East Timor governor Abilio Jose Soares against the constitutionality of the Human Rights Tribunal Law (No. 26 of 2000). Constitutional Court President Jimly Asshidiqie in his judgment said that the legislation did not violate the constitutional prohibition on retroactivity, as claimed by Abilio.",
        "content": "<p>Rights tribunal law not retroactive<\/p>\n<p>JAKARTA: The Constitutional Court rejected on Thursday a<br>\nchallenge by former East Timor governor Abilio Jose Soares<br>\nagainst the constitutionality of the Human Rights Tribunal Law<br>\n(No. 26 of 2000).<\/p>\n<p>Constitutional Court President Jimly Asshidiqie in his<br>\njudgment said that the legislation did not violate the<br>\nconstitutional prohibition on retroactivity, as claimed by<br>\nAbilio.<\/p>\n<p>Abilio brought the challenge as he considered his trial before<br>\nthe rights tribunal to be unlawful as it was based on Article 43<br>\n(1) of the law, which states that the rights tribunal can hear<br>\nrights violation cases that occurred before the enactment of the<br>\nlegislation.<\/p>\n<p>The rights tribunal convicted Abilo of involvement in East<br>\nTimor atrocities in 1999 and jailed him for three years. The<br>\nSupreme Court later acquitted him after he requested a review of<br>\nhis conviction. -- JP<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/rights-tribunal-law-not-retroactive-1447893297",
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