(AFP) –
WASHINGTON — The United States on Monday criticized an Indonesian court for jailing a minority sect member for six months for defending himself and others from a lynch mob that killed three of his friends.
We again encourage Indonesia to defend its tradition of tolerance for all religions, a tradition praised by President (Barack) Obama in his November 2010 visit to Jakarta."
“We are disappointed by today’s sentencing of Deden Sudjana who was a victim of the February 6 attacks,” State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters……….
The sentence was the same or stiffer than those handed out last month to 12 Islamic extremists who led the mob in the February rampage, including a teenager who was filmed crushing one victim’s head with a stone.
Human rights activists expressed outrage that one of those wounded by the mob should be jailed for longer than the leaders of the violence.
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