Jakarta – Khoirul Anam of the Solidarity Action Committee for Munir (Kasum) said the purportedly new evidence brought to court by Pollycarpus and his lawyers was nothing new.

In an effort to have a Supreme Court ruling overturned, Pollycarpus and his lawyers offered five new pieces of evidence in their case review.

Among the new evidence proposed was an aircraft flight log confirming the Singapore-Amsterdam flight hours and witness testimony that Pollycarpus went straight to a bus as soon as he got off a Garuda flight from Jakarta.

"[The evidence] is nothing new. Previous witnesses Sabur M. Taufik and Brahmani Hastawati already testified that Pollycarpus was on the same bus as them," Anam said after the hearing on Thursday. "As for the hours of the flight, that was also explained by previous witnesses Pantun Matondang and Madjib Rajab Nasution," Anam said.

Anam questioned the use of that evidence in a case review, in which only new evidence is to be accepted.

"They should be careful in passing that as new evidence. It was used and rejected in the previous trial. If they use it again, it means they are just playing around," he said. "It should not be taken as valid evidence," he added.

The Supreme Court found Pollycarpus guilty of the premeditated murder of human rights activist Munir by putting arsenic in Munir's drink at Singapore's Changi Airport. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison. Pollycarpus has challenged the court's sentence with a case review. (awd)