Legal proceedings stopped – Ahmadi Families forgive the Attackers

Ahmadis to drop further legal proceedings in Cikeusik killings.

The Jakarta Post,

The Indonesian Ahmadiyah Congregration (JAI) says it will not seek further legal action against the hard-liners given lenient sentences for instigating a riot in which three Ahmadis were beaten to death.

The JAI, a repeated target of violence by Muslim hard-liners who accuse it of straying from Islam, said that the Ciekusik riot case was over.

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 “The families of the victims have forgiven all the attackers. They are fine now,” JAI spokesman Zafrullah A. Pontoh said. “We deeply regret that we had to lose three of our members. But we will not prolong the conflict by reporting the murder cases,” he added.

 However, the incident would not deter the group from practicing or defending their beliefs, he said.

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