Muslim cleric named suspect in Cikeusik lynching

NATIONAL Thu, 02/17/2011 8:52 AM

Muslim cleric named suspect in Cikeusik lynching

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

Police say they have named a Muslim cleric, identified only with the initial U, as a suspect in the Cikeusik tragedy and have placed him in detention.

“There is another suspect, identified as U. So there are now seven suspects who are being detained,” the National Police spokesman Snr.Com. Boy Rafli Amar told kompas.com on Thursday, in a text message.

The other six suspects have been identified as U, M, E, Y, M, and S. The two last suspects, M and S, surrendered themselves accompanied by their lawyer from the Muslim Defense Team.

The suspects are charged with inciting violence and attacking the Ahmadiyah congregation, brutally killing three of its members.

Boy said the police had questioned 95 suspects, including members of the Ahmadiyah congregation that was attacked.

Mahendradatta from the Muslim Defense Team said the Muslim cleric had been arrested in Bogor after spreading hostile text messages under the name of the Cikeusik Muslim Movement.

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Police detain six suspects in Pandeglang Ahmadiyyah attack

NATIONAL Wed, 02/16/2011 6:03 PM

Police detain six suspects in Pandeglang Ahmadiyyah attack

The Jakarta Post

The National Police have detained six suspects for their alleged roles in the recent deadly attack against members of Islamic minority sect Jamaah Ahmadiyah in Cikeusik, Pandeglang, Banten.

“We’ve detained six suspects in relation to the Cikeusik case; the last suspects we questioned yesterday were those with the initials U and I,” National Police chief detective Comr. Gen. Ito Sumardi said Wednesday in Jakarta as quoted by Antara.

Four other suspects currently in police detention are known only by the initials M, E, UJ and Y; while two other suspects, M and S, have not yet been detained.

“The National Police continue to search for the two parties involved. We want to reveal a clear account of what happened there, and hope whoever else was involved will report themselves to the police,” Ito said, adding that so far the Ahmadis had only been questioned as witnesses.

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