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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 yesterday.
"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 from Monday next week 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 blasts.
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.
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 are being held over the bombings, which police say were the work of the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) regional terror network. A number of others are 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.
(China Daily February 11, 2003)
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