JAKARTA, Indonesia
(AP) — An Indonesian man wounded when Islamic hard-liners launched a
deadly attack on his minority sect was sentenced Monday to six months in
prison — more than some of those caught on video taking part in the
lynching.
Human
rights groups blasted the ruling, saying 48-year-old Deden Sudjana was
acting in self-defense. They said it showed how the police, the judicial
system and the government are helping fuel religious intolerance in the
world's most populous Muslim nation.
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