Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Bashir faces life in jail for terrorist camp
The National Monday 27th June, 2011
previous photo JAKARTA // Indonesian state prosecutors told a Jakarta court yesterday they were seeking a life sentence for the 72-year-old cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, the spiritual leader of Islamist militants in South East Asia, for helping finance a "terrorist training camp". Scores of his supporters, some packed into the courtroom and others watching live on a screen outside, shouted in dismay at what they said was the severity of the proposed sentence, shook their fists and chanted "Allahu Akbar" or "God is greatest". Under Indonesian law the prosecutor was entitled to ask for the death penalty, but chose not to. Although Mr Bashir does not command wide support in Indonesia, the harshness of the proposed sentence is likely to further inflame anger among some Islamists already enra...
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