The police investigated Rizieq Shihab next Monday, FPI reminds its supporters not to come to the Polda Metro page

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – The FPI undersecretary general and legal adviser, Aziz Yanuar, recalled that the leader of the Islamic Defenders Front, Rizieq Shihab, has asked his supporters not to attend his examination next week.

This is to prevent the reappearance of crowds amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

“Orders from HRS (Rizieq) to avoid and not crowd and please keep health protocols wherever they are,” Aziz said when contacted on Saturday (5/12/2020).

The police are scheduled to question Rizieq Shihab about the health protocol violation that occurred in Petamburan, Tanah Abang, Central Jakarta, on November 14, 2020.

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Rizieq will be examined as a witness at the General Directorate of Criminal Investigation (Ditreskrimum) Polda Metro Jaya, on Monday (7/12/2020).

Today, Aziz said, the FPI hopes that supporters will continue to guard the case that dragged their leader.

“We hope, let’s take care of this legal process to make it fair and dignified, please pray,” said Aziz.

Rizieq’s summons was the second time he was not present on Tuesday (12/1/2020).

Aziz said that Rizieq Shihab’s absence to comply with the police summons was not because he was absent from the health protocol violation cases that dragged his name.

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However, Aziz said, the summons has been represented by him as legal force.

“This is not absent, he is not absent. He is represented for us by the FPI legal aid team,” Aziz told Polda Metro Jaya on Tuesday.

Aziz explained that Rizieq’s absence from Polda Metro Jaya as a witness was due to health reasons that forced him to rest.

“The reason is that he is still resting, related to last Saturday that he just left Ummi Hospital, Bogor after resting there. This means that he is still in the recovery stage,” he said.

According to Aziz, the researchers who scheduled to examine Rizieq had already conveyed and accepted this reason.

“Human and health reasons related to the fulfillment of Habib Rizieq Syihab’s condition. Therefore, we want to thank the police,” he said.

However, the police denied this statement, saying that Rizieq’s absence was not due to clear reasons.