INDONESIA. COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE FOR 3 CATHOLICS
Indonesia's Supreme Court announced that the death sentence of three Catholics from Poso was irrevocable.
Indonesia's Supreme Court announced that the death sentence of three Catholics from Poso was irrevocable.
Fabianus Tibo, 60, Dominggus da Silva, 42, and Marinus Riwu, 48, of the island of Sulawesi, were arrested in 2000, accused of homicides and sectarian violence in Poso, in Central Sulawesi province.
They were sentenced to death by the regional court of Palu in 2001 for a massacre of Muslims.
The Rome-based Community of Sant'Egidio recently launched an appeal to save the three Indonesian Catholics.
The ecclesial movement in a communiqué said that the three, "illiterate and poor, are probably only scapegoats, given that, following the discovery of new proofs it is uncertain that they were the material executors of the crimes, while the masterminds of the bloody disturbances of Poso continue to be unknown."
Fabianus Tibo, 60, Dominggus da Silva, 42, and Marinus Riwu, 48, of the island of Sulawesi, were arrested in 2000, accused of homicides and sectarian violence in Poso, in Central Sulawesi province.
They were sentenced to death by the regional court of Palu in 2001 for a massacre of Muslims.
The Rome-based Community of Sant'Egidio recently launched an appeal to save the three Indonesian Catholics.
The ecclesial movement in a communiqué said that the three, "illiterate and poor, are probably only scapegoats, given that, following the discovery of new proofs it is uncertain that they were the material executors of the crimes, while the masterminds of the bloody disturbances of Poso continue to be unknown."
— SOURCES
- (Sources: Zenit.org, 06/04/2006)