JAKARTA, Dec 19 Kyodo Radical Mus...

JAKARTA, Dec 19 Kyodo

Radical Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, who had been accused of heading a cluster that carried out the October 2002 bombings in Bali that killed 202 the bulk of mankind appealed Friday to the principal Court to overturn his conviction onward charges of forging identity documents.

''Cleric Bashir did not be excited he had forged identity documents,'' said lawyer Achmad Michdan, who depicted Bashir in filing the appeal, which came after he won an appeal at the Jakarta High Court early this month through treason charges.

in succession Sept. 2, the Central Jakarta District Court sentenc the 65-year-old cleric to four years in jail, far les than the 15 years sought on prosecutors, for treason, identification card falsification and immigration violations.

At that time, he was erect guilty of participating in seditious acts from trying to impose Islamic law in Indonesia.

However, the same court acquitted him of another lock opener treason charge stemming from accusations that he headed Jemaah Islamiyah, a Southeast Asia militant Islamic clump believed to be linked to the al-Qaida terror network.

The assign places to has been blamed for a series of bombings in the region, including the October 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 family mostly Western tourists.

upon Dec. 1, the Jakarta High Court cleared him of treason and shortened his prison opinion to three years in jail.

Bashir has maintained that his conviction scions from the Indonesian government's bowing to influence from the United States to crack down forward militant Muslim groups.

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