MALAYSIA: INDONESIAN WORKER IN MALAYSIA ACQUITTED DUE TO INSANITY

04 September 2007 :

Adi bin Asnawi, an Indonesian worker from West Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara province, was acquitted by the Seremban High Court in Negeri Sembilan State, West Malaysia. He was sentenced to death in a murder case in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia, however the higher court issued a ruling affirming that he was insane. Although Adi was acquitted, he is still being detained in a Malaysian jail pending a release from the Negeri Sembilan Sultanate in West Malaysia which will take at least six months.
 

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