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Guilty verdict for Abu Bakar Bashir

Abu Bakar Bashir

JAKARTA: Indonesia's High Court has upheld a 30-month prison sentence for accused terror chief Abu Bakar Bashir for conspiracy in the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings, a court official said on Monday. Lawyers for Bashir, who the United States and Australia allege is the spiritual head of the Al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah terror group, said they had yet to be informed of the decision but would appeal to the Supreme Court. Bashir was convicted in March of conspiracy in the Bali bombings, which killed 202 persons, but cleared him of more serious charges of planning the 2003 attack on the U.S.-owned J.W. Marriott hotel in Jakarta that killed 12 people. Husein Kasing, a spokesman for Jakarta High Court, said judges there ``had rejected the appeal'' filed by Bashir after that verdict but gave no details on the ruling. The court, which convenes behind closed doors, reached its verdict on May 11, but did not immediately publicise it, as is customary in Indonesia. The 30-month sentence was decried by the governments of the United States and Australia, which were hoping for a longer punishment to deter terrorism in the world's most populous Muslim nation. — AP

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