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Advocates association prepares 30 lawyers for church attack suspect

Apriadi Gunawan (The Jakarta Post)
Medan
Fri, September 2, 2016

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Advocates association prepares 30 lawyers for church attack suspect St. Yosep Catholic Church on Jl. Dr Mansyur in Medan, North Sumatra, after a foiled terror attack on Aug. 28. (Antara Photo/Irsan Mulyadi)

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he Indonesian Advocates Association (Peradi) of Medan has prepared 30 lawyers to assist Ivan Armadi Hasugian, 17, the suspect in the St. Yosep Catholic Church attack during mass last Sunday.

Peradi’s legal aid head, Rizal Sihombing, said Peradi wanted to get involved in the case because Ivan’s parents requested legal help.

“We have prepared 30 lawyers to help Ivan. They are all from Peradi’s Medan branch,” Rizal said on Thursday.

Rizal explained the family had approved the legal team, who had begun to counsel Ivan during questioning by the National Police’s Densus 88 counterterrorism squad and Medan Police.

The police, Rizal went on, had charged Ivan with violating articles 335, 338, 340 and 351 of the Criminal Code.

Rizal said he had asked police to move Ivan to a children’s detention center because he was still 17. He turns 18 in October.

Last Sunday the suspect tried to bomb the church and later when the bomb failed to explode tried to kill Catholic priest Albert Pandiangan, who was at the altar. The police found a hand-drawn symbol of the Islamic State radical movement on a piece of paper among the suspect’s belongings. (evi)

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