Lawyers to report judges in Munir case

Lawyers to report judges in Munir case

JAKARTA: Lawyers of a Garuda pilot recently convicted for
murdering human rights activist Munir announced a plan to report
the panel of judges that heard the case to the Judicial
Commission.

Lawyer M. Assegaf, who represented Pollycarpus Budihari
Prihanto, said on Saturday that they would file the report in the
coming days as they suspected that certain parties had tried to
influence the judges' decision.

"The mistakes in the verdict are very clear," he said.

Among the flaws, Assegaf said, was the argument that
Pollycarpus put arsenic in the noodles served to Munir instead of
in the orange juice as stated in the prosecutors' indictment.

Pollycarpus has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for
murdering Munir on board a Garuda flight from Jakarta to
Amsterdam in September last year. President Susilo Bambang
Yudhoyono has ordered the National Police to arrest the
masterminds of the murder case. -- JP