Jakarta. A self-proclaimed Muslim preacher who was being detained for alleged libel died for health problem on Monday night, a National Police representative said.
Soni Eranata, who called himself Ustaz(Muslim preacher) Maaher At-Thuwailibi, has actually been in police custody considering that early December for presumably insulting a reputable cleric on his Twitter posts. He died at the age of 28.
Cops representative Insp. Gen. Argo Yuwono stated Soni had reported degrading health condition during in custody and was confessed to the Authorities Health Center in Kramat Jati, East Jakarta.
After treatment for four days at the health center, the detainee was stated fit and returned to the authorities custody recently, Argo said in a declaration.
He said physicians will notify the general public about Soni’s health problem.
” Concerning his health problem, the medical team understands better,” Argo stated. He didn’t explain about the surrounding circumstances when the detainee was found dead.
Djuju Purwantoro, an attorney for the deceased, stated his customer was noticable dead at around 7.00 p.m.
Djuju verified that Soni had regularly checked out doctors at the Cops Medical facility for medical treatment prior to his death.
Soni’s spouse Iqlima Ayu said in an interview with Detikcom last month that he had actually suffered intestinal infection for around a year.
The household has requested that he was moved to a private health center, however was denied by the authorities.
During a video interview from the detention center with the exact same news website on Dec. 5, Soni stated he was treated well and “served excellent food”, which the officers who handled his case are “extremely kind people”.
He was arrested at his home in Bogor, West Java over a problem that he had actually insulted Habib Luthfi bin Yahya, a highly regarded cleric of the nation’s biggest Muslim group Nahdlatul Uama.
The complaint relates to his August Twitter post in which he carried the photograph of Luthfi using a Muslim headdress with a caption reading: “Yes, [he] looks more beautiful with this veil.”
However, more severe public condemnations could be traced back years earlier, particularly in 2017 when he stated “the government is the enemy of Islam”, after it became clear that the Joko Widodo administration planned to disband Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia, a local motion that looks for to develop a caliphate.
In November 2019, pro-government activist Permadi Arya aka Abu Janda lodged a cops complaint versus Soni, implicating him of sending murder hazard by means of Twitter post.
In November in 2015, Soni in a tweet called artist Nikita Mirzani a “whore” and threatened to send out 800 people to her house after the female involved in a war of word with another questionable cleric, Rizieq Syihab.
In another tweet, Soni showed that prominent Muslim figure Gus Miftah was a “slut fan”.
