Saturday, September 27, 2014

Slow Saturday Special: Indonesia Extracts Confession From American

They tortured him. 

"American suspect confesses in Bali killing, police say" Associated Press   September 20, 2014

BALI, Indonesia — An American man has confessed that he killed his girlfriend’s mother in a luxury hotel on Indonesia’s Bali island, and the girlfriend has acknowledged helping him stuff the body into a suitcase, police said Friday.

Heather Mack, 19, and her boyfriend Tommy Schaefer, 21, both from Chicago, were arrested in Bali on Aug. 13, a day after the body of Sheila von Wiese-Mack was found in a suitcase inside the trunk of a taxi at the St. Regis Bali Resort.

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‘‘Schaefer confessed to killing von Wiese-Mack during police interrogation,’’ Colonel Djoko Heru Utomo, the police chief, said. ‘‘He was hurt and offended by the victim’s words in an argument with him. That is the motive for the murder.’’

He said Mack, who is three months’ pregnant, admitted in a separate interrogation that she helped Schaefer stuff her mother’s body into a suitcase.

Utomo said Schaefer and Mack were accompanied by their Indonesian and US lawyers during the interrogations.

Attempts to reach the Indonesian lawyers were not immediately successful.

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So what is the punishment?

"Indonesian province considers caning for gay sex" Associated Press   September 25, 2014

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia — People caught having homosexual sex could be publicly caned in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province if an Islam-inspired draft law is approved this week. 

I'm thinking of it for bankers and war criminals instead.

Lawmaker Moharriadi Syafari said a majority of provincial legislators supported criminalizing gay sex. They are debating the law with a view to passing it and several others regulating personal behavior before Friday, the last day of the current assembly.

Gay rights activist King Oey said Wednesday he will urge the central government to use its influence to get the bill scrapped or appeal to the country’s Constitutional Court.

‘‘There is no room to talk about this democratically in Aceh because once someone expresses an objection he or she will immediately be branded ‘anti-Islam,’ ’’ he said. ‘‘The only way to stop it is at the national level, particularly at the level of the minister of home affairs.’’

They brand us anti-semitic over here.

If the law is passed by the 69-member assembly, it must be signed by the Aceh governor before it can take effect.

Indonesia’s secular central government granted Aceh the right to implement a version of Islamic Shariah law in 2006 as part of a peace deal to end a separatist war.

The central government doesn’t have the power to strike down a provincial law, but it can ask Aceh to reconsider legislation.

The region canes people found guilty of adultery, gambling, and consuming alcohol. Females wearing tight clothes can be fined, as can people who skip Friday prayers.

Well, I guess the U.S. will just have to wage war on Aceh, too. 

Gotta liberate them women even if we have to kill a whole bunch or leave them widows.

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