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Bali bombers to lodge new judicial review
Three militants who were sentenced to death for the 2002 Bali blasts plan to lodge another judicial review with an Indonesian court, their lawyer said on Friday, which could delay or prevent their execution.
- Reuters
- Published: 00:05 May 3, 2008
Jakarta: Three militants who were sentenced to death for the 2002 Bali blasts plan to lodge another judicial review with an Indonesian court, their lawyer said on Friday, which could delay or prevent their execution.
The three men - Amrozi, Imam Samudra, and Mukhlas - face execution by firing squad for their role in the bomb attacks which killed more than 200 people, mostly foreigners, and dealt a blow to tourism in the predominantly Hindu holiday resort island of Bali.
The three Bali bombers, who are being held at a maximum security prison in Central Java, submitted separate review documents to the prison head on Wednesday and asked for these to be given to the nearby Cilacap District Court, their lawyer Achmad Michdan said.
Court
The three militants had previously submitted a request for judicial review to a court in Denpasar, Bali, but want the review to be considered by a local court in predominantly Muslim Central Java.
"We want the Cilacap court to hear the judicial review case and allow us to present the convicts," Michdan said.
In the militants' second judicial review earlier this year, the Denpasar District Court refused to bring the three men to Bali to testify because they had already given their testimony.
'Martyrs'
The three bombers have repeatedly said they are ready to die as martyrs, and refuse to use their right to ask for a pardon from Indonesia's president. Indonesian prosecutors have said they will execute the men but will wait until every legal step for the bombers has been exhausted, saying there is no deadline for execution.
One of the bombers, Amrozi, is planning to remarry his former wife inside the heavily guarded prison on May 12.
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