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NEWS ARCHIVE·DEATH PENALTY·FEBRUARY 10, 2003
Indonesia

Four key suspects in the Bali bombings will be charged...

Four key suspects in the Bali bombings will be charged with offences punishable by death while others will face up to 20 years' jail if convicted, Indonesian police said

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Four key suspects in the Bali bombings will be charged with offences punishable by death while others will face up to 20 years' jail if convicted, Indonesian police said.
"They (the key suspects) will be charged under the anti-terror laws as initiators and executors of the explosions, charges that carry up to the death sentence," said Bali police spokesman Yatim Suyatmo.
"The rest will face between four and 20 years," Suyatmo added. Suyatmo said police would soon give prosecutors evidence files on 14 Bali bombing suspects in preparation for a trial.
All 14 will face charges based on an anti-terror decree, which was rushed through after the October 12, 2002 blasts that killed more than 190 people. It authorises the death penalty for some terrorist acts.
Use of the death penalty is rare in Indonesia, where the last execution was carried out in May 2001 of two men convicted of a murder in 1989. It was the first execution for five years.
A police firing squad enforces the penalty.
Meanwhile Suyatmo named two of the 14 -- Imam Samudra and Mukhlas -- as "key suspects" along with Amrozi, whose file is already in the hands of the prosecutors. There was also a fourth key suspect, Ali Imron who is a younger brother of Amrozi and Mukhlas, but his file was not yet completed, Suyatmo said.
He named the other 12 whose files will soon be handed over as Hernianto, Junaedi, Syaiful, Maskuri, Andri Oktavia, Herlambang, Yudi Wibowo, Mustafa, Maskur bin Abdul Kadir, Andi Hidayat, Abdul Rauf and Muhammad Najib.
Thirty people in all were being held over the bombings, which police say were the work of the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) regional terror network. A number of other major suspects were still being hunted.
Police have described Samudra as field commander of the attacks and Mukhlas as JI's operations chief.
Amrozi is said to have procured the van which contained one bomb as well as chemicals used to make explosives. Ali Imron allegedly helped assemble the bombs and drove the van to near the scene of the blast, where another man took over.
A relatively small bomb ripped through Paddy's Bar in the Kuta district, driving people out into the street. Seconds later the van exploded outside the nearby Sari Club with huge loss of life.
Police have said the trial or trials could start within the month on the resort island. Under Indonesian law, police give prosecutors files of evidence and prosecutors then prepare the charges to be put to defendants in court.
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  • (Sources: AFP, 10/02/2003)