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Thirty members of the persecuted minority Ahmadiyah Muslim sect have been inside a sealed mosque in West Java since Thursday, and police have been accused of harassing other Ahmadis trying to deliver food to those inside, The Jakarta Globe reported.
Officers of the public order agency in the city of Bekasi installed heavy iron gates and a fence around the building on April 4 while people were still inside, the paper quoted Firdaus Mubarik, spokesman of Ahmadiyah Indonesian Congregation, as saying.

A radical Muslim holds a placard reading, “Disband Ahmadi and revolution,” during a protest against the Ahmadi sect in Jakarta, on Feb. 18, 2011.

According to the Globe, the mosque has held regular prayers since 1998, and pressure against it began to build after the hard-line Islamic Defenders Front announced plans for a local branch.
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