JAKARTA: Indonesia has extradited an Emirati activist who was sentenced to jail in absentia two years ago for allegedly plotting a coup in the Gulf state, an Indonesian police spokesman said.
The case underscores the desire of the United Arab Emirates, an oil-producing hereditary country closely allied to the West, to quell the perceived threat from Islamists five years after they gained ground throughout the region after Arab Spring uprisings.
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