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Abu
Bakar Ba'asyir rejects police's detention order
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The
Jakarta Post
October
20, 2002
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Abu Bakar Ba'asyir rejects police's detention
order
SOLO, Central Java (JP): Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyir, who chairs the
Indonesian Mujahidin Council (MMI), has rejected the letter of detention issued
to him by the National Police Headquarters, his lawyers said here on Sunday.
The police formally detained Ba'asyir, 64, who is suspected of having links to
terrorism, on Sunday afternoon. However, police said they would allow him to
remain at the Muhammadiyah Hospital here until his health improves.
The national director of criminal investigations, Brig. Gen. Aryanto Sutadi,
said the police officially changed Ba'asyir's status to that of a police
detainee at noon on Sunday.
However, through his lawyers, Ba'asyir said that he was refusing the detention
order on the grounds that the allegations against him were merely slander.
"(The detention) was ordered without any evidence and only to respond to
U.S. pressure," Ba'asyir said through his lawyers.
Ba'asyir, who is receiving medical care at the hospital, said he would go to the
National Police Headquarters in Jakarta to answer a summons for questioning if
his health improved, "but not with the status of a police detainee",
SCTV television reported.
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