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Families have criticized their prison sentences – of between one and two years – as being too light. “The Kanjuruhan tragedy was a gross human rights violation,” said Imam Hidayat, a spokesperson for the Kanjuruhan Tragedy Advocacy Team, who called on the Attorney General’s Office to form an independent team to investigate the tragedy. Also among the demonstrators was a man named Daniel, whose daughter Elvi Duali died at the stadium. “Even after a year, we (the victims’ families) still have not received justice.”Located in East Java, the Kanjuruhan Stadium was used mostly for soccer matches, with a supposed capacity of 38,000 spectators. A clash between a number of Arema FC fans and police prompted security forces to fire tear gas into enclosed areas of the stadium.
Persons: , , Hidayat, Daniel, Elvi Duali, ” Daniel, , Willy Kurniawan, Joko Widodo, Usman Hamid Organizations: CNN, CNN Indonesia, National Police Headquarters, Investigations, Attorney, Arema FC, Reuters Survivor, Amnesty International Locations: Indonesia, Jakarta, Malang Regency, Komnas HAM, East Java, Amnesty International Indonesia
JAKARTA, Nov 2 (Reuters) - Indonesian police firing tear gas was the main trigger for a deadly soccer stampede at a stadium in East Java last month, the country's human rights commission found in a report on the incident released on Wednesday. Officials from the human rights commission (Komnas HAM) said 135 people had died in the stampede, mostly from asphyxiation, after the match at Kanjuruhan stadium on Oct. 1. Indonesian authorities and the Indonesian football Association (PSSI) have faced questions and criticism in recent weeks over why police fired tear gas inside the stadium, a crowd control measure banned by world soccer governing body FIFA. Komnas HAM commissioners specified seven violations human rights in one of the world's worst stadium disasters, including the excessive use of force and violation of children's rights. Reporting by Stanley Widianto and Ananda Teresia; Writing by Kate Lamb; Editing by Ed DaviesOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
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