Families make visit to Bali bombers

Families make visit to Bali bombers

BALIKPAPAN, East Kalimantan: Prison authorities allowed on
Tuesday the families of six men convicted of roles in the Bali
bombing to visit them in jail.

The families were allowed to meet with the convicts after the
men spent the first few weeks in special quarantine cells at the
Balikpapan prison.

The convicts -- who received jail sentences of between three
and seven years for their roles in the 2002 bombing -- met their
families under a tight guard.

The six were prosecuted and jailed in Bali but the central
government later allowed them to be transferred to a prison
nearer their families for humanitarian reasons. -- JP