JAKARTA: Indonesian legislators will urge police to release militant Islamic cleric Abubakar Ba’asyir, who was rearrested last week on terrorism charges, a senior parliamentary official said yesterday.
“We will ask police to release him and place him under house arrest,'' said Hamdan Zulva of parliament's powerful Commission for Legal and Human Rights Affairs.
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