Afghanistan, June 10 -- An Indonesian military court has convicted four senior officers from the army's Strategic Intelligence Agency (BAIS) over an acid attack on a prominent human rights activist, in a case that has drawn national and international attention.
The court on Wednesday sentenced the four officers to prison terms ranging from 18 months to three years after finding them guilty of involvement in the March attack on Andry Yunus, deputy coordinator of the Commission for the Disappeared and Victims of Violence (KontraS).
Yunus, 27, was attacked while riding a motorcycle in Jakarta on March 12 when two men on another motorcycle threw acid at him. The assault left him blind in one eye and caused burns to more than 20 percent of his...