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Ahok will not attend blasphemy case screening: Lawyer
Jakarta governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama would not attend the blasphemy case screening on Tuesday at the National Police office due to scheduled campaign activities, his lawyer has said.
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Jakarta non-active governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama leaves the National Police Criminal Investigation office after being questioned in an alleged blasphemy case. Ahok's lawyer said on Tuesday the incumbent governor would not attend the blasphemy case screening. (JP/Wendra Ajistyatama)
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akarta governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama would not attend the blasphemy case screening on Tuesday at the National Police office due to scheduled campaign activities, his lawyer has said.
"He has confirmed that he can't come. He is scheduled to receive residents at Rumah Lembang," Ahok's lawyer Sirra Prayuna said at National Police headquarters on Tuesday, referring to Ahok's campaign secretariat on Jl. Lembang, Central Jakarta.
Eighty lawyers from Ahok's legal team will represent him at the screening.
The team will take nine witnesses, comprising three eyewitnesses, two criminal law experts, two religious experts and two language experts, to the case screening.
A case screening is part of a crime investigation prior to the police deciding whether or not to name someone a suspect.
(Read also: Police retract plan to televise case screening of Ahok blasphemy allegation)
Previously, National Police chief Tito Karnavian said that Ahok would invite a Quran expert from Egypt, Sheikh Amr Wardani, an ulema from Al-Azhar University, to testify for him. However, Sirra said that the expert was unable to come to the case screening.
"He can't come because a relative is sick," he said.
