Man leaves sanctuary after 598 days


Free man: Sujitno and Dhalia walking out of the Unitarian Universalist Church with Blumenthal in Meriden, Connecticut. — AP

HARTFORD: A former Fulbright scholar who has been fighting deportation to his native Indonesia left the sanctuary of a Connecticut church after 598 days.

Sujitno Sajuti had been living inside Meriden’s Unitarian Universalist church with his wife, Dahlia, since being ordered by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in 2017 to board a plane.

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