INDONESIA: PROSECUTORS DEMAND A TWENTY YEAR SENTENCE FOR THE FOURTH BALI BOMBER ALI IMRON, AS HE APPEARS IN COURT IN DENPASAR, BALI.

Record ID: 648857

  • Title: INDONESIA: PROSECUTORS DEMAND A TWENTY YEAR SENTENCE FOR THE FOURTH BALI BOMBER ALI IMRON, AS HE APPEARS IN COURT IN DENPASAR, BALI.
  • Date: 3rd September 2003
  • Summary: (W3) DENPASAR, BALI (SEPTEMBER 3, 2003) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. WS: EXTERIOR OF COURT VENUE. 0.05 2. MV: MAN BEING CHECKED BY SECURITY. OF SECURITY. 0.09 3. WS: POLICE VAN ARRIVING. 0.17 4. MV: BOMBING SUSPECT ALI IMRON GETTING OFF POLICE VAN AND ENTERING COURT. SURROUNDED BY ARMED POLICE. 0.25 5. WS: PANEL OF JUDGES ENTERING COURTROOM. 0.31 6. SCU: CHIEF JUDGE OPENING SESSION. 0.36 7. MV/TRACK: ALI IMRON ARRIVING IN COURTROOM ESCORTED BY TWO POLICEMEN AND SITTING DOWN. 0.49 8. VARIOUS: OF PROSECUTOR READING OUT SENTENCE DEMAND AS IMRON LISTENS. (3 SHOTS) 1.10 9. WS/SCU: OF AUDIENCE. (2 SHOTS) 1.21 10. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (Bahasa Indonesia) PROSECUTOR JUNAEDI SAYING: "Mitigating elements included Ali Imron admitting his actions were wrong and showing great remorse. The defendant also urged his family and supporters not to follow his actions. He also pleaded for an end to any kind of violence, saying it amounts to nothing." 1.52 11. SCU: AUDIENCE. (2 SHOTS) 2.01 12. WS/INTERIOR: COURTROOM. 2.07 13. SCU: ALI IMRON LISTENING. (SHOT FROM REAR) 2.13 14. SCU: COURT OFFICIALS. 2.18 15. (SOUNDBITE) (Bahasa Indonesia) CHIEF PROSECUTOR I GUSTI PUTU SULABA SAYING: "We ask the panel of judges to punish the defendant, Ali Imron bin Nurhasyim, with 20 years in jail less time already served." 2.35 16. SCU: JUDGE CLOSING SESSION. 2.47 17. WS/INTERIOR: COURTROOM. 2.51 18. SCU: JUDGE ENDS SESSION. 2.56 19. MV/TRACK: ALI IMRON LEAVING COURTROOM ESCORTED BY TWO POLICEMEN. 3.14 20. WS/INTERIOR: PEOPLE GETTING UP TO LEAVE COURTROOM. 3.19 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 18th September 2003 13:00
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  • Location: DENPASAR, BALI, INDONESIA
  • Country: Indonesia
  • Reuters ID: LVACV5QW0N534IZXUQ0I2IOL2UL7
  • Story Text: Prosecutors urge an Indonesian court to jail the
    fourth key Bali bombing suspect, Ali Imron, for 20 years.



    The sentence demand against Imron, who has said he
    was sorry his actions killed innocent people, was read on
    Wednesday (September 3).

    "We ask the panel of judges to punish the defendant,
    Ali Imron bin Nurhasyim, with 20 years in jail less time
    already served," chief prosecutor I Gusti Putu Sulaba told
    the court.

    "Mitigating elements included Ali Imron admitting his
    actions were wrong and showing great remorse. The defendant
    also urged his family and supporters not to follow his
    actions.

    He also pleaded for an end to any kind of violence, saying
    it amounts to nothing," prosecutor Junaedi earlier told the
    court.

    Imron has been charged with plotting, organising and
    carrying out crimes of terror over the October 12 nightclub
    blasts that killed 202 people, most of them foreign
    tourists.

    Youngest of three Indonesian brothers accused over the
    blasts, Imron has begged forgiveness from victims and told
    the court the attack was wrong and besmirched Islam.

    The court last month sentenced his elder brother Amrozi
    to death over the attacks. Amrozi had admitted his
    involvement and said he was proud the attacks killed white
    people.

    The eldest of the three, Mukhlas -- the suspected
    commander of the Bali operation -- is awaiting his verdict.

    Prosecutors have demanded he be executed, carried out by
    firing squad in Indonesia.

    Another key suspect, Imam Samudra, faces judgment day
    next week. Prosecutors have also demanded death for him.

    Indonesian authorities have said the bombings were the
    work of Jemaah Islamiah, a Southeast Asian militant Muslim
    group accused of plotting and carrying out attacks in the
    region.

    On Tuesday, a court in Jakarta jailed Muslim cleric Abu
    Bakar Bashir for four years on treason charges, but said
    the prosecution had failed to prove he led Jemaah Islamiah.

    That
    sentence was far less than the 15 years demanded by
    prosecutors.





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