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Police
arrest four Pakistani preachers in Maluku
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The
Jakarta Post
February
24, 2003
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Police arrest four Pakistani
preachers in Maluku
JAKARTA (JP): Maluku Police said
Monday they have arrested four Pakistanis who gave sermons at a
mosque, AFP reported.
The four were detained Saturday in
Masohi on Seram island and were taken early Monday to the
provincial capital of Ambon for questioning, said Maluku
deputypolice chief Sr. Comr. Anton Bambang Suwedi.
Maluku has been under a state of
emergency since September 2001 following Christian-Muslim battles
which broke out in January 1999.
The government brokered a fragile
peace accord last February but sporadic violence has continued in
Ambon, the main island.
Bambang said the four, who were
arrested after preaching at a mosque in Masohi Friday, had no
permit to enter Maluku.
Foreigners are required to have
special permit to enter Maluku under the state of emergence.
"They will be deported from
Maluku immediately after their questioning is completed,"
Bambang said, without mentioning the names.
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