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Munir plea made to international activist forum

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Jakarta Globe - September 14, 2011

Jakarta – Indonesian delegates brought the case of slain human rights activist Munir Said Thalib into the spotlight at the 6th Dublin Platform – the world's largest forum of rights activists.

"We will bring up the case of Munir, which has been left unresolved," Usman Hamid, the chairman of the Commission of Missing Persons and Victims of Violence, said on Wednesday in a statement sent to The Jakarta Post.

Usman led the Indonesian delegation, including activists from the ASEAN Inter-Governmental Commission for Human Rights, Papua Legal Aid Research, the Studies and Development Institute and Volunteers forJournalist Protection and Freedom of Expression Committee.

The three-day forum was organized by the Front Line Defenders, an organization protecting activists.

"This sixth forum will specially address the increasingly important role of human rights defenders and the increasing danger faced by human rights activist worldwide," the press statement said.

Munir was a renowned rights activist who died from arsenic poisoning on board a Garuda Indonesia flight to Amsterdam in 2004.

Former pilot Pollycarpus Budihari Prijanto has appealed his murder conviction in the case, although critics say the mastermind of behind Munir's death has not been brought to justice.

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