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Ex-spy on trial for Indonesian activist's death
AP - Wednesday, December 3
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Prosecutors demanded 15 years imprisonment Tuesday for a former intelligence official accused of ordering the 2004 mid-flight murder of Indonesia's most prominent human rights activist.
Prosecutor Cyrus Sinaga told a packed South Jakarta District Court that Muchdi Purwoprandjono "planned and ordered" the poisoning death of Munir Thalib, who exposed military abuses during the U.S-backed dictatorship of former President Suharto.
Thalib, 38, died of an arsenic overdose on a flight to Amsterdam operated by the state-run airline, Garuda.
Sinaga said all evidence and testimony during the three-month trial pointed to the involvement of the 59-year-old former deputy head of the State Intelligence Agency. He said prosecutors "demand that he be sentenced to 15 years in jail."
Purwoprandjono has denied involvement in the murder.
In January, the Supreme Court sentenced Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto, a 46-year-old pilot, to 20 years in prison for carrying out the murder. Indra Setiawan, a former airline official, received a one-year sentence for being an accessory.
The investigation into Thalib's death is seen as a test of how much Indonesia has changed since the days of Suharto, the dictator who ruled the country for 32 years until democracy fueled-riots forced him to resign in 1998.
During Suharto's regime state-sponsored killings were common, and military and police officers were largely above the law.
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