Munir poisoned 'during flight'

Munir poisoned 'during flight'

JAKARTA: A University of Indonesia toxicologist Ridla Bakri told
the Central Jakarta District Court on Thursday that Munir was
most likely poisoned during the flight from Jakarta to Singapore.

"It's impossible that it occurred in Jakarta. It could have
taken place on the Jakarta-Singapore flight, or during the
transit in Singapore," he said.

Ridla, who was a member of a government team who flew to
Amsterdam last year to obtain the results of an autopsy carried
out by Dutch authorities on Munir's body, was speaking as an
expert witness in the trial of Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto, the
main suspect so far in the murder case.

Pollycarpus, a Garuda Indonesia pilot, was accused of putting
arsenic into a glass of orange juice to be served to Munir during
the Sept. 6, 2004 flight bound for Amsterdam.

But there have been allegations that certain senior
intelligence officials were also involved in the killing of
Munir, a top human rights campaigner. -- Antara