Rizieq Shihab's Sentence In UMMI Case Reduced To 2 Years In Prison, MA: The Confusion Of The Defendant's Actions Only Happened In The Media

JAKARTA - The Supreme Court (MA) in a cassation decision reduced Rizieq Shihab's sentence in the UMMI case. Rizieq Shihab in the cassation decision was sentenced to 2 years in prison from the previous decision which was upheld at the appeal level, namely 4 years in prison.

In its decision, the Supreme Court rejected the appeal from Cassation Petitioner I/General Prosecutor at the East Jakarta District Attorney. The cassation judge also rejected the petition for cassation by the Petitioner for Cassation Il/Defendant Moh Rizieq Bin Husein Syihab alias Habib Muhammad Rizieq Shihab.

There is also the consideration of the cassation panel, namely, even though the defendant Rizieq Shihab has been proven to have committed an act by broadcasting a false notification by intentionally causing trouble among the people as in the first alternative indictment of the Public Prosecutor, the result of the publication of the disturbances from the defendant's actions only occurred at the level of the mass media.

"There were no casualties/physical or property and against the Defendant in addition to the a quo case, he has also been sentenced in other cases which are a series of events related to COVID 19. Therefore, Judex Facti's sentence of 4 years to the Defendant is considered too heavy. so that the sentence imposed on the Defendant is appropriate or reasonable to be corrected by imposing a lighter sentence," said the Supreme Court's cassation decision, quoted by VOI, Monday, November 15.

Previously, the Jakarta High Court (PT) panel of judges upheld the first-degree verdict for the defendant Rizieq Shihab in the case of the swab results of the Bogor UMMI Hospital. So, Rizieq was still sentenced to four years in prison.

The PT DKI decision was later annulled by the Supreme Court by reducing the sentence for Rizieq Shihab to 2 years in prison.

“Improved the Decision of the DKI Jakarta High Court Number 210/Pid.Sus/2021/PT DKI dated August 30, 2021 which amended the Decision of the East Jakarta District Court Number 225/Pid.Sus/2021/PN Jkt. Tmr dated June 24, 2021 regarding the sentence imposed on the Defendant to a prison sentence of 2 (two) years," reads the excerpt of the Supreme Court's cassation decision.