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Bashir may be free in months thanks to Indonesian court idiocy
Indonesiaâs Supreme Court has reduced a jail term imposed on militant Islamic cleric Abu Bakar Bashir to 18 months, a court official said Tuesday. The ruling means that Bashir, who is said by foreign governments to have led the al Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) terror group, could be free within months. Supreme Court spokesman Joko Upoyo said the court had reduced Bashirâs sentence for immigration offences to one and a half years. "The time he has spent in detention will be deducted," Upoyo told AFP. A district court last September convicted Bashir of taking part in a JI plot to overthrow the government but said there was no proof he had led the network. It sentenced him to four years in jail for treason and immigration-related offences.
Posted by: Dan Darling 2004-03-09 |
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