An NGO activist says President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s decision to immediately reply to graft suspect Muhammad Nazaruddin’s letter requesting protection was discrimination.

“Yudhoyono immediately replied to a graft suspect’s letter while in fact there are a thousand other open letters from human rights case victims that have been abandoned by the President,” Putri Kanesia of the Commission of Missing Persons and Violence Victims (Kontras) said Monday as quoted by tempointeraktif.com.

“This shows only one thing, that the President has exercised discrimination in imposing his own law enforcement policy.”

She said there were 1,279 open letters from human rights case victims throughout the country that had been sent to the presidential office, which had not received a response.

Through presidential spokesman Denny Indrayana, Yudhoyono replied to Nazaruddin, who had earlier requested the President keep his family out of the current legal process, saying he could not interfere with the law.