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¡