ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mon Mar 13, 2006 6:20 AM ET
Indonesian Court Rejects Guterres' Appeal
Indonesia's top court has rejected a final appeal by notorious militia leader Eurico
Guterres over his role in the 1999 violence in East Timor, meaning he will have to
serve out a 10-year sentence, media reports said Monday.
Guterres has been free while his appeal process was being heard. His appeal was
rejected, Metro TV and other local broadcast media said, but the reports did not say
when.
The Supreme Court's decision means he will now be taken to prison, marking only the
second time that that an Indonesian court has punished anyone over the violence that
swept East Timor when it voted to break from Jakarta rule in a U.N.-sponsored
independence ballot.
Officials from the court, which meets behind closed doors and does not publicly
announce its verdicts, were not immediately available for comment.
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