U.S.
Congress Calls for Justice for Slain Indonesian Human Rights
Hero
Human rights group says investigation
and prosecution falls short
NEW YORK, November 9 A bipartisan group of 68 members of
the U.S. House
of Representatives sent a letter to the Indonesian President
last week
urging action on the case of a murdered human rights lawyer,
Munir Said
Thalib. Munir was fatally poisoned on a flight to Amsterdam
on September
7, 2004. After a Dutch autopsy revealed a massive dose of
arsenic in his
system, President Yudhoyono appointed an official fact-finding
team to look
into the death.
The team¡ |