The Jakarta Post, 11/21/2005 12:47:51 PM
Lawyers for detained Indonesian cleric to ask for case review
JAKARTA (AFP): Lawyers for Indonesian hardline Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyir,
jailed for his role in the 2002 Bali bombings, will request later this week that his case
be reviewed, one of his lawyers said Monday.
Muhammad Assegaf, one of Ba'asyir's lawyers, declined to say what new evidence
Ba'asyir's legal team was preparing to present, only telling AFP that the demand for a
case review wouldbe filed later this week.
Bashir was sentenced in March to 30 months in prison for his involvement in a
criminal conspiracy that led to the October 2002 nightclub bombings in Bali which
killed 202 people, including 88 Australians.
Ba'asyir is accused by some foreign governments of being the spiritual leader of the
Southeast Asian extremist group Jamaah Islamiyah (JI), blamed for the Bali blasts in
2002 and this year, along with other attacks in Southeast Asia.
He was arrested a week after the 2002 Bali bombings and first put on trial the
following year, but the terrorism charges were thrown out. He was then found guilty of
immigration offenses andjailed.
Police, citing fresh evidence, rearrested him in April last year as he served out his
prison sentence for the immigration violations. (***)
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