Swayed by Testimony

Ba’asyir was sentenced to 15 years in prison for supporting illegal military training in Aceh. His aides’ testimony ensured a guilty verdict.

June 22, 2011

SOBS could be heard inside inside the Prof. Oemar Seno Adji courtroom, at the South Jakarta District Court, on Thursday last week. Over a dozen women, their heads and bodies covered in black burqas, were expressing their sadness when a 15-year prison sentence was imposed on cleric Abu Bakar Ba’asyir. Supporters of the leader of the Indonesian Mujahidin (Jihadists) were shocked by the verdict. At the building courtyard , hundreds of the cleri

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