Abu Sayyaf claims he was tortured by police.

We made some mention of the arrest of one Joko Wibowo alias Abu Sayyaf, or Sayaf, here. He is a member of the Solo, official name Surakarta, branch of the Majelis Mujahidin Indonesia (MMI), the Mujahidin Council of Indonesia and was arrested in connection with the second Bali bomb attacks of October 2005. Today the Mujahidin Council delivered a protest to General Sutanto of the national police claiming that Sayaf has been tortured while in custody.

We are delivering this protest to General Sutanto because he is the highest police official in the country.

said MMI chairman Fauzan Al Anshori.

We know that Abu Sayyaf was tortured after the MMI saw him at the central Java police headquarters on 3 February 2006 after he had been captured in Karanganyar, 19 January 2006.

Fauzan went on to say that the man in question had a number of visible scars and marks on his body including cigarette burns, cuts and marks from electric shocks, and his fingers and toes were black and blue.

Abu Sayyaf has experienced inhuman torture at the hands of police interrogators.

Because of the violation of his human rights we demand that Joko Wibowo alias Abu Sayyaf be freed and measures be taken against those responible for his mistreatment.

He further said that if the demands of the MMI were not acknowledged by the police it would be proof that the Indonesian security forces were in league with the United States in its war against the Muslim world.

General Sutanto’s response is not known but a general of the central Java police, Dody Sumantyawan, dismissed the claims.

It’s not true that there has been physical abuse. And the media does not need to exaggerate. He’s not being abused. He’s fine.

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