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Indonesian Convicted in Activist Death

Friday, January 25, 2008 3:04:51 PM
By ANTHONY DEUTSCH

 Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto, a pilot for national airline Garuda Indonesia, is escorted by prosecutors after his trial in Jakarta, in this Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2007 file photo. Indonesia's Supreme Court convicted a former state airline pilot on Friday of murdering a prominent human rights activist and sentenced him to 20 years in prison, an official said. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana, File)JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Police will question Indonesian intelligence agents for the first time about their alleged involvement in the poisoning death of a top human rights activist after a former pilot was convicted Friday of murder.

The questioning could break years of deadlock over the investigation into the killing of Munir Thalib, who had a reputation for exposing military abuse during the U.S.-backed dictatorship of former President Suharto.

Thalib died of arsenic poisoning on a commercial Garuda flight from Jakarta to Amsterdam in September 2004.


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