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August 15, 2011

AP: Victim of Indonesian mob attack sent to jail

by Ali Kotarumalos
The Associated Press

(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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