Jakarta (Antara) - Former Garuda Indonesia Airlines pilot Polycarups, charged with the murder of human rights activist Munir Said Thalib, was paroled on Friday, leaving the Sukamiskin Penitentiary in Bandung, West Java, according to a reliable official. "Pollycarpus has been released on parole because he has met the requirements to go free," the Law and Human Rights Ministry's director general of penitentiaries, Handoyo Sudrajat, said in a text message on Friday. Sudrajat added that the former Garuda pilot was eligible for parole after serving 8 years of a 14 year sentence in prison. The Central Jakarta District Court sentenced Polycarpus to 14 years in prison for poisoning Munir, but he was later acquitted of the murder charges by the Supreme Court. Polycarpus was freed in December 2006, but in June 2007 he returned to court following the prosecutors' request to the Supreme Court for a review of his case. Sudrajat said the newly installed Law and Human Rights Minister, Yasonna H. Laoly, had signed the parole document releasing Pollycarpus. Polycarpus was convicted in 2005 of poisoning Munir with arsenic during a flight from Jakarta to Amsterdam in September 2004. (*)


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