Bali High Court upholds Gufron's death sentence<\/p>\n
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta<\/p>\n
The Bali High Court upheld the death verdict on one of the Bali
\nbombers, Ali Gufron, and increased the sentence of one of his
\naccomplices by three years.<\/p>\n
The High Court considered there was no reason for the
\nconvicted bombers to appeal as all the evidence supported the
\ndistrict court's decision to sentence him to death.<\/p>\n
\"The new verdicts from the High Court upheld the earlier
\ndecision from the district court and one of them got an
\nadditional three years in jail,\" High Court chief I Made Tara
\nsaid on Sunday, as quoted by Antara.<\/p>\n
The accomplice, Hernianto, was sentenced to a 15-year jail
\nterm, after an earlier sentence of 12 years had been issued by
\nthe Denpasar district court.<\/p>\n
Along with the appeals of Ali Gufron and Hernianto, the Bali
\nHigh Court has so far rejected the appeals of 18 convicted Bali
\nbombers.<\/p>\n
Among the 18 cases were other convicts facing the death
\nsentence including Amrozy, Imam Samudra, Junaedi, Andi Hidayat
\nand Abdul Rauf. Amrozy is currently awaiting a decision from the
\nSupreme Court as he appealed the decision of Bali High Court,
\nwhich upheld his death sentence.<\/p>\n
From the 29 people that have been sentenced for the bombing,
\n10 accepted the verdicts while 19 appealed the decision of the
\ndistrict court.<\/p>\n
A total of 35 people have been arrested and are undergoing
\nlegal processing for the Oct. 12, 2002 Bali bombing that killed
\n202 people, mostly foreign tourists. The joint investigation
\nbetween the Indonesian police and Australian Federal Police (AFP)
\nuncovered the network of the Jamaah Islamiyah organization, which
\nis blamed for the bombing.<\/p>\n
Police are still hunting for other suspects such as Malaysian
\nAzahari and Nurdin Mohammad Top.<\/p>\n
Four other suspects undergoing trial at the Denpasar district
\ncourt are Suranto Abdul Ghoni, Sarjiyo, Achmad Roichan and
\nHafidin.<\/p>",
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