Split decision behind Tempo Verdict
Tuesday, September 21, 2004
The Central Jakarta District Court last Thursday was transformed into a raucous protest arena. Hundreds of people packed the court grounds, in anticipation of the final verdict over Tempo’s chief editor, Bambang Harymurti and journalists, Ahmad Taufik and Iskandar Ali. Demonstrators held up banners calling on the court to exonerate the three defendants from their defamation charges. Others protested against the ‘criminalization’
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