Publication Date:
Fri, 2011-06-24 22:53
Erwin Arnada, 48,
who had been editor of the now-defunct magazine, was serving a two-year prison
sentence after a protracted legal battle that began in 2006 and saw him imprisoned
last October when a lower court's acquittal was overturned. "This is part
of the history of the struggle for freedom of the press," Arnada said as
he left Cipinang prison in Jakarta on Friday afternoon wearing a T-shirt
emblazoned with "Journalism is not a crime."
His lawyer Heriyanto
Yang said a judicial review panel of the Supreme Court decided late last month
to reverse the court's own earlier conviction. Bureaucratic delays in such
decisions being announced are not uncommon in Indonesia.
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