APRISONER who died after apparently being tortured in a police cell was not a suspect, but a witness to a police stabbing. Meanwhile, the four members of the Yogyakarta Police Mobile Brigade (Brimob) who are suspected of fatally injuring Aan Yulianto are still free. Indeed, two of the dead mans friends were arrested last Friday.

Why have the police escaped punishment so far? Is it because only their own colleagues investigated them, or because the