JAKARTA - The former high priest of the FPI, Habib Rizieq Shihab, said that the prosecutor's demands in the case of the results of the swab test at the UMMI Hospital were unreasonable. This is because the regulations do not include imprisonment for violators of health protocols.

This statement was made by Rizieq Shihab when he read the memorandum of defense or plea at the East Jakarta District Court.

"After I heard and read the prosecutor's demands, which sentenced me to 6 years in prison. The prosecutor's demands are unreasonable and beyond reason, even too sadistic and immoral", Rizieq said in court, Thursday, June 10.

The reason for Rizieq's opinion that the prosecutor's demands were unreasonable was because the case against him was a violation of health protocols. Where, in that case, the application of sanctions should only witness a warning and a fine.

 

In addition, referring to the Instruction of the President of the Republic of Indonesia number 6 of 2020, there are no cases of violations of health protocols being given a prison sentence as a witness.

In the regulation, there are at least four sanctions that will be given to health protocol violators. For example, verbal warnings or written warnings, social work, administrative fines, termination, or temporary closure of business operations.

"That the case of violating the health protocol is a violation case, not a criminal case, so it is enough to apply administrative sanctions instead of witnesses to imprisonment", he said.

Rizieq Shihab was found guilty by the public prosecutor in the swab case at the Bogor UMMI Hospital. The former frontman of the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) was sentenced to 6 years in prison.

"Issuing a prison sentence against the defendant Rizieq Shihab for 6 years in prison," said the prosecutor at the trial at the East Jakarta District Court, Thursday, June 3.

The prosecutor assessed that Rizieq had violated Article 14 paragraphs (1) and (2) as well as Article 15 of Law Number 1 of 1946 regarding the Criminal Law Regulations jo article 55 paragraph 1 to 1 of the Criminal Code.


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