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Court Upholds Cleric’s Conviction in Bali Blasts

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From Times Wire Reports

The Supreme Court upheld a 30-month prison sentence for militant cleric Abu Bakar Bashir for conspiracy in the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings, a court official said.

Lawyers for Bashir said they had not yet been informed of the decision.

Bashir, the alleged spiritual head of the Jemaah Islamiah extremist group, was convicted in March of conspiracy in the bombings, which killed 202 people, many of them foreign tourists.

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