Rizieq Syihab raises his cuffed hands as he is being escorted to the detention center as a suspect in health protocol offense case on Dec. 13,2020 The Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) leader is detained after 11- hour interrogation at the Jakarta Cops head office. (Beritasatu Photo/Joanito De Saojoao)
BY: THE JAKARTA GLOBE
MAY 17, 2021
Jakarta. Indonesian district attorneys on Monday advised a sentence of 34 months in jail for firebrand cleric Rizieq Syihab, who is accused of breaching health protocol throughout the Covid-19 pandemic.
The prosecution group also demanded that the former leader of now-defunct Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) be banned from holding leadership role in any mass company for the next three years.
The advised jail term is an accumulation of concurrent sentences in two different demands– the very first asks for 10 months and the 2nd recommends 2 years.
Rizieq stands trial for 2 counts, consisting of attending a mass event at a Muslim boarding school in Megamendung, Bogor, West Java, and setting up a spiritual event in addition to a wedding event party for his daughter at his house in Petamburan, East Jakarta, in November of last year.
Prosecutors stated the occasions were accepted little regard for government guidance against mass events throughout the pandemic.
Rizieq is dealing with a longer jail term for the events to celebrate Prophet Mohammad’s birthday and to host a celebration for his child’s wedding since he deliberately welcomed numerous visitors to his home, according to the prosecution need.
Prosecutors also asked the East Jakarta District Court to keep Rizieq in detention while awaiting decision.
They advised the judge panel that the defendant had actually been convicted of criminal offense two times in 2003 and 2008.
” Secondly, the offender’s actions didn’t help government’s Covid-19 avoidance program– they rather intensified public health emergency circumstance,” district attorney Syahnan Tanjung told the court.
The district attorney pointed out Rizieq’s “impoliteness and twisted arguments” throughout the court proceedings that has begun since mid-March, as he read out the sentencing demand.
Rizieq turned himself in to the authorities on Dec. 13, six days after a cops chase caused the deadly shooting of 6 FPI members in a Jakarta suburb. Police argued that they were pursuing a lorry convoy bring Rizieq when a cars and truck tried to obstruct them on the interstate.
Two FPI members were killed on the spot, while four others died later on in what authorities described as defense action as they allegedly withstood arrest and tried to get authorities weapons while in the cars and truck. The National Commission for Human being Rights have actually launched examination and recommended criminal trial versus the officers included.
Rizieq was sentenced to seven months in jail in 2003 after the FPI vandalized bars in Jakarta. 5 years later on, he again was founded guilty and sentenced to one and a half years for an attack on a religious liberty occasion at the National Monument Square in Central Jakarta.
Because 2016, he has actually been facing a number of police complaints over different problems from insulting state symbols and blasphemy to incorrect communism sign claims and declared sexual chat with a female advocate.
He left for Saudi Arabia in 2017 amid a wave of legal cases directed versus him.
The federal government declared the FPI as forbidden organization in December, pointing out links to terrorism.
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