JAKARTA, April 5 (UPI) -- Two employees of Indonesia's national airline were detained for questioning Tuesday in the in-flight poisoning death of a prominent rights activist last year.
Munir, a 38-year-old human rights campaigner, was poisoned with some 500 milligrams of arsenic -- four times the lethal dose -- on a Garuda flight from Jakarta to Amsterdam Sept. 7.
A former pilot was the first person detained in the investigation last month while police rounded up a former galley worker and flight attendant Tuesday for questioning. They were being held, but had not been arrested, the BBC said.
Their lawyer, Muhammad Assegaf, said his clients had nothing to worry about.
"I don't see anything strange when they did their job in preparing, serving and delivering food for Garuda passengers, including Munir," he said.
Munir, long outspoken about the number of people who disappeared during the rule of former President Suharto, reportedly sent a text message during a stopover at Singapore airport to his wife telling her he was feeling ill. A few hours later he was dead.
