Jakarta – The National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) has formed an ad hoc team to investigate gross human rights violations in the case of the 2004 assassination of renowned human rights activist Munir Said Thalib.
Komnas HAM Chairperson Ahmad Taufan Damanik said that the move was agreed to at a plenary meeting on Friday August 12. Thus the Munir case will be pursued referring to Law Number 26/2000 on Human Rights Courts.