JAKARTA: Indonesian rights groups slammed the government’s decision to grant parole to the convicted murderer of a prominent human rights activist poisoned during a flight ten years ago.
Pollycarpus Priyanto was serving a 14-year jail term for killing Munir Said Thalib by arsenic poisoning on a national carrier Garuda flight from Jakarta to Amsterdam via Singapore in 2004.
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