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Columnist Jailed, Constitution Violated

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Jailing a columnist is a serous breach of the Constitution. Articles on defamation in the Criminal Code must be reviewed.

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BERSIHAR Lubis, a columnist and journalist, should not have been questioned, let alone found guilty of defamation. The column he wrote, The Tale of the Slow-witted Interrogator, published in Koran Tempo daily on March 17, 2007, was a critique, not an insult. Criticizing a person is not a crime, and should not be seen as a weapon aimed at destroying the prosecutor’s office.

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