Militant Gets 10 Years in Hotel Bombing
An Indonesian court sentenced a Muslim militant to 10 years in jail for involvement in last year’s bombing of the J.W. Marriott hotel in Jakarta but acquitted him of helping plan the 2002 Bali attacks, even though he acknowledged participating.
The August 2003 attack on the Marriott killed 12 people, and the bombings in Bali killed 202.
The court ruled that Jhoni Hendrawan, alias Idris, could not be prosecuted in the Bali case because Indonesia’s top court prohibited the retroactive application of the law used to charge him. The Marriott case occurred after its enactment.
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