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Indonesia weaponizing defamation laws to smother dissent

Two former coordinators of one of Indonesia’s most prominent human-rights organizations have escaped conviction in a defamation case brought by a powerful government minister. While their acquittal is welcome, the case marked a bleak new low for freedom of expression in one of the world’s largest democracies. Haris Azhar and Fatia Maulidiyanti, who had coordinated […]

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