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Spreader of fake news on Jakarta bombings pleas for release
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Deadly attack: National Police investigators check remains found after a suicide bomb blast at Kampung Melayu bus terminal in Jakarta on May 24. (AFP/Bayu Ismoyo)
T
he suspected spreader of fake news on the Kampung Melayu suicide bombings, Ahmad Rifai, 37, from West Padang Panjang, West Sumatra, wrote an apology letter to National Police chief Gen.Tito Karnavian, through which he begged to be released.
“Our client [Ahmad] wrote an apology letter to the National Police chief as he regretted the Facebook posts that hurt many people,” Ahmad’s lawyer, Muhammad Ihsan, told Tito on Monday.
The National Police’s cybercrime squad arrested Ahmad on Sunday over fake news he posted on his Facebook account on the same day.
On his Facebook status, Ahmad said the twin suicide bombings at the Kampung Melayu bus terminal in East Jakarta on May 24 were a police plot.
Ahmad said his wife was five months pregnant and that they had two children aged 5 and 3 years old who needed him.
Separately, police investigators said they were still investigating Ahmad's motive behind spreading the fake news. (hol/ebf)
