Indonesian cleric, Abu Bakar Ba’asyir, was sentenced to 15 years in prison by an Indonesian court on Thursday after finding him guilty of an act of terrorism.
The radical cleric was convicted of funding a Islamic militant training camp and planning and persuading people to join the camp, reported the Jakarta Post.
The Post reports that he allegedly collected $41,000 from two donors to help fund the camp.
Over the years, Ba’asyir has been arrested, imprisoned, and released a number of times. He spent several years in jail for helping inspire the militants who conducted the Bali bombing in 2002 that killed more than 200, mostly Australians and Indonesians.
Ba’asyir, 72, “planned and/or encouraged other people intentionally to use violence or threats of violence to create terror and fear among the people and cause massive [numbers of] victims,” said presiding judge Herri Swantoro, according to the Post.
After the verdict was handed down, Ba’asyir said that he would appeal. “I reject this because it is cruel and disregards Islamic sharia. This ruling is by the friends of the devil and it is haram [forbidden under Islam] for me to accept it,” he said, according to AAP.
The radical cleric was convicted of funding a Islamic militant training camp and planning and persuading people to join the camp, reported the Jakarta Post.
The Post reports that he allegedly collected $41,000 from two donors to help fund the camp.
Over the years, Ba’asyir has been arrested, imprisoned, and released a number of times. He spent several years in jail for helping inspire the militants who conducted the Bali bombing in 2002 that killed more than 200, mostly Australians and Indonesians.
Ba’asyir, 72, “planned and/or encouraged other people intentionally to use violence or threats of violence to create terror and fear among the people and cause massive [numbers of] victims,” said presiding judge Herri Swantoro, according to the Post.
After the verdict was handed down, Ba’asyir said that he would appeal. “I reject this because it is cruel and disregards Islamic sharia. This ruling is by the friends of the devil and it is haram [forbidden under Islam] for me to accept it,” he said, according to AAP.
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