The Wire

Human Rights activists often die in mysterious circumstances, but one of the strangest cases is that of Munir. Munir was an outspoken defender of causes like Aceh and Papua, and he no doubt had enemies in high places. Last September he was on his way to Amsterdam to study when, in the best Agatha Christie tradition, he was poisoned. Someone put arsenic in his in-flight meal. At the time, in the spirit of his promise to tackle corruption, Indonesian President Yudhoyono promised to track down the culprits. Eight months later, no arrests have been made. Annie Hastwell asked John Miller, at the New York office of Human Rights Defenders, how the investigation was going.