Sandiaga Uno Refuses to Comment on Ahok`s Christmas Remission
21 December 2017 10:56 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Jakarta Deputy Governor Sandiaga Uno refuses to comment on Christmas remission for former governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama (Ahok).
“Oh, I won’t comment on legal issues,” Sandiaga Uno said in South Jakarta on Wednesday, Dec. 20.
Earlier, Ahok lawyer I Wayan Sudirta said that his client will get remission of sentence on Christmas for behaving well as he spends six months in jail.
The former Jakarta governor is sentenced to two years in prison for blasphemy against Islam in relation to his speech on the Seribu Islands last year. He is now imprisoned at the Police’s Mobile Brigade Headquarters in Depok, West Java.
The remission was proposed to the Justice and Human Rights Ministry based on Law No. 12/1995, among others.
Convicts may get remission after meeting certain requirements, including having a good behavior and already spend six months in jail. Ahok lawyer Wayan said that his client has met the requirements.
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