Indonesia: Refocus Efforts to Solve Activist’s Murder
(New York) – Indonesian police should strengthen efforts to find those responsible for the 2004 murder of a leading human rights lawyer instead of pursuing criminal defamation allegations against one of his fellow activists, Human Rights Watch said today. Munir bin Thalib, a renowned lawyer, was poisoned on September 7, 2004 while on a Garuda Indonesia flight from Jakarta to Amsterdam. Maj. Gen.