The law needs to really be used as an instrument for informing and not as an instrument for targeting
Jakarta – Islam Defenders Front (FPI) leader Habib Rizieq Shihab kept his guarantee by showing up at the Jakarta Metropolitan Police headquarters at 10: 30 a.m. regional time, Saturday, for questioning over a supposed health procedure breach case.
This outspoken Muslim cleric was accosted by his team of lawyers and numerous leading figures of FPI. He used a face mask while reaching the Jakarta Metropolitan Cops Head Office.
Shihab’s legal representative, Aziz Yanuar, informed reporters that his customer was prepared for detention if police detectives chose to do so following the questioning.
” Insya Allah (God willing), he (Habib Rizieq Shihab) is ready for any possibility due to the fact that he is a fighter,” Yanuar kept in mind, adding that the group of attorneys had actually been prepared to support Shihab if he was apprehended.
Yanuar mentioned his customer and team of lawyers having actually given major idea and prepared necessary endeavors referring to the handling of this case.
On Friday night, Shihab had revealed his pledge to appear at the Jakarta Metropolitan Police headquarters on Saturday to answer the police’s summons over the case of alleged health protocol breach.
In his public declaration launched by Front TV’s YouTube channel, Shihab, who recently lost 6 of his guards that were eliminated early today, claimed to have never gotten away from or gotten rid of the legal process, though he required to rest for total health healing.
” I have neither ever flee nor hidden. I duplicate once again, I have actually neither ever escaped nor hidden because throughout my health recovery process, I stayed far more at the Markas Syariah Agricultural Islamic Boarding School in Megamendung, West Java,” he emphasized.
Shihab was called a suspect on Thursday along with 5 other people on grounds of infraction of health protocols throughout the occasions at his home and the FPI head office in Jakarta last month.
The five other suspects are head of the occasions’ arranging committee Haris Ubaidillah, secretary of the occasions’ arranging committee Ali bin Alwi Alatas, FPI commander in charge of security affairs Maman Suryadi, FPI’s general chairman accountable for the occasions Sobri Lubis, and Idrus, who was in charge of the events’ rundown.
The Jakarta Metropolitan Cops also attracted the government’s authorized companies to impose 20- day take a trip bans on Shihab and five others to prevent them from traveling abroad.
Regarding the Shihab case, the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) pressed for applying reasonable law enforcement when it comes to this well-respected FPI leader to prevent any offense to the public sense of justice in neighborhoods.
” The law must really be used as an instrument for educating and not as an instrument for targeting,” MUI Deputy Chairman Anwar Abbas had previously mentioned.
The police’s decision to call Shihab as a suspect for violating health protocols in holding events that led to the parish of people should show the use of law as an instrument to edify rather than target, Abbas stated.
Abbas highlighted that police versus Shihab and his guys over the cases of holding crowd-drawing events need to likewise be imposed fairly and equally on other neighborhood members discovered breaching the government’s COVID-19 procedures in the country.
Stopping working to implement the concept of reasonable police and public sense of justice would only create unrest among members of the public, he cautioned.
” To this end, we hope, without exception, that all people or parties that have breached the COVID-19 rules, as the cops have implicated Habib Rizieq Shihab of having actually done, would also be named suspects,” he verified.
Early today, Jakarta Metropolitan Police Chief Inspector General Fadil Imran stated that on-duty authorities examination officers had shot dead 6 guards of the FPI leader for attacking them.
The event took place on Monday, December 7, 2020, at 00: 30 a.m. regional time on the Jakarta-Cikampek KM 50 Interstate, Imran revealed.
The FPI denied claims of its members having actually attacked police officers on grounds that they were unarmed.
Instead, Munarman verified that the fatal shooting was an extrajudicial killing. He advised to uncover the truth behind the occurrence by forming an independent fact-finding group that involved Indonesia’s National Commission on Human Being Rights (Komnas HAM).
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