The European Parliament adopted a Declaration on the murder of the human rights activist Munir Said Thalib.

It recalled that in September 2004 leading Indonesian human rights activist Munir Said Thalib, founder of human rights organisations, died from arsenic poisoning on Garuda flight GA974 from Singapore to Amsterdam. The report by an independent fact-finding team into the Munir Said Thalib case, ordered by the Indonesian President, has never been made public. Furthermore, the only person to have been prosecuted in connection with the case, former Garuda co-pilot Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto, had his conviction overturned by the Indonesian Supreme Court in October 2006.

Stating that this murder was also meant to intimidate and threaten all other Indonesian human rights defenders and journalists, the European Parliament:

- calls on the Indonesian authorities to take all necessary action to ensure that those responsible for the murder at all levels are brought to trial and justice is delivered as quickly as possible;

- calls on the Commission and the Council to monitor the investigation into the murder of Munir Said Thalib, including the ongoing trials of former Garuda executives Indra Setiawan and Rohainil Aini, as well as the review of the Supreme Court's decision in the Pollycarpus case.