Jakarta, Indonesia - Republic of
INDONESIAN CLERIC ABU BAKAR BASHIR REQUESTS APPEAL ON VERDICT IN
JAKARTA.
Indonesian Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir requests an appeal from the
judges after his verdict in a Jakarta courtroom September 2, 2003. The
Indonesian court sentenced Bashir to four years in jail on Tuesday for
taking part in acts of treason, in a case widely seen as a test of the
willingness of the world's most populous Muslim nation to crack down on
radical Islam. REUTERS/Supri
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