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JI suspects acquitted
AN Indonesian appeal court has acquitted three suspected members of the Jemaah Islamiyah terror network, overruling jail sentences of up to five years issued by lower courts, a report said today.The Central Sulawesi province Court of Appeal on Friday quashed the conviction of Firmansyah, Fajri and Aang Hasanuddin, the Jakarta Post said. Officials were not immediately available to confirm the report. "They have been found not guilty. After investigating the evidence, and based on witness statements, the three were not proven to be involved in terrorism," the presiding judge of the court of appeal, Mahdi Saroinda Nasution said on Saturday, according to the newspaper. Firmansyah and Fajri had been sentenced to five years in jail for allegedly aiding Bali bomb suspect Achmad Roichan while Hasanuddin was given three years for failing to inform police on the activities of the other two. In the ruling, issued on Friday, the court of appeal also ordered the release of the three from detention. But prosecutors Ferry Silalahi and Syahrul Alam said the three would only be freed after the supreme court had ruled on the prosecutor's appeal. The same court is currently hearing appeals from two other suspected Jemaah Islamiyah members - Muhammad Fauzan and Nizam - who were sentenced to six years each over weapons possession and storage in March. Posted by: Dan Darling 2004-05-23 |
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