Indonesian spy faces trial over activist's murder
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An Indonesian former intelligence agent is to face trial over the 2004 poisoning murder of human rights activist Munir Said Thalib.
It marks the first time a high-ranking figure in the military establishment will face justice over the murder of the activist, who died from arsenic poisoning on a flight from Singapore to Amsterdam in 2004.
The attorney general's office says the former senior officer in the State Intelligence Agency, Muchdi Purwopranjono, will be charged with premeditated murder, which is punishable by death.
Munir was the leader of independent rights watchdog Kontras and a vocal campaigner for victims of military abuses under the Suharto dictatorship.
