Prime Session Held, 2 French Journalists Threatened with Criminal 5 Years in Prison

 Dandois (40) underwent initial trial in the District Court of Class IA Abepura, Jayapura, Papua province.

Prime trial led Chief Justice, Martinus Bala and two members it starts and ends 10:50 o'clock 11:20 o'clock local time. Attending there Bourrat Valentine's mother and brother of Thomas Dandois and French consular officials from Jakarta.

Assembly Prime beragenda reading the indictment of the Public Prosecutor, Sukanda against Valentine and Thomas.

Sukanda read out the charges related to the abuse of two pages of travel documents by the two journalists. Prosecution also read chronologically the second coming of the defendant until arrests were made at the beginning of August 7 in Jayawijaya Wamena, Papua.

Thomas and Valentine charged with article 122 letter a of Law No. 6 of 2011 on keimigrasiaan, in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph (1) 1st Code of Criminal hukun Indonesia imprisonment for 5 years.

In response to the contrary, the Legal Counsel of the accused, Aristo Pangaribuan said the indictments were delivered Prosecution does not define what it is journalistic activities in question.

"In the indictment the Prosecution is very clear, that the core of the charges do not fit on a visit visa. However, the public prosecutor in the indictment does not specify whether the charges in question. The activities mentioned journalism Prosecution dakwan not described in the reading. Element this does not seem to be imaged. Prosecution itself does not define what journalistic activities, "said Aristo.

"To that end, we argue that the indictment is not accurate, then we would expect the assembly declare null and void the charges," he said.

Assembly with the agenda to hear feedback from the public prosecutor will be held tomorrow, Tuesday (21.10.14) morning in the same place. The trial is scheduled to take place one week to hear the verdict on Friday.