April 26, 2021
A police officer stands guard outside the Mobile Police Brigade headquarters.
Reuters
An Indonesian court has sentenced six terrorists to death for their role in a 2018 prison riot in which five police officers were brutally killed and one inmate shot dead.
The six defendants – Wawan Kurniawan, 45, Syawaludin Pakpahan, 46, Anang Rahman, 55, Handoko, 36, Suyanto, 44, and Suparman, 38 – were sentenced in an online session by the East Jakarta District Court on Wednesday evening. The men are all linked to pro-Islamic State (Isis) militant groups.
“All six men have been sentenced to death,” said Faris, a lawyer for one of the convicted men.
All six were found guilty of planning and carrying out a riot at the prison run by the police Mobile Brigade in Depok, south of Jakarta, on May 8, 2018. Isis later claimed its fighters were behind the fight with police in the prison.
Indonesia sentences six terrorists to death for 2018 prison riot
Five police officers were tortured and killed and one inmate shot dead during the unrest at the detention centre run by the police Mobile Brigade in Depok
Sentencing could trigger revenge attacks from Islamic State sympathisers, experts warn