Trial Info (continued 1)

From correspondents in Jakarta

June 19, 2007 02:58pm

INDONESIAN militant Abu Dujana will sue the police, saying he was shot in the thigh by members of an elite anti-terrorist unit after surrendering, one of his lawyers said today.

Dujana, who is believed to head a military wing of the South-East Asian militant group Jemaah Islamiah (JI), was captured on June 9 during a police raid in central Java.

Lawyer Achmad Michdan said the country's anti-terrorism unit, Detachment 88, had violated the suspect's rights by shooting him after he had surrendered.

"We will sue the Indonesian police and Detachment 88 and we will ask the court to examine the basis and the process of the arrest," he said.

National police spokesman Sisno Adiwinoto said the arrest had not violated human rights.

"We have long upheld the principles of human rights in our operations and we have acted according to the procedures," Mr Adiwinoto said.

Dujana had been sought in connection with several attacks, including the 2004 Australian embassy blast and the Marriott blast. Police said he also had a role in the 2002 Bali bombings, which killed more than 200 people, many of them foreign tourists.

Dujana said in a video shown at a police news conference last week that he had undergone military training in the Pakistani city of Peshawar and in Afghanistan. He also admitted in the video to being head of JI's armed wing.

Mr Michdan cited witness reports that the police shot Dujana in the leg in front of three of his children while he was squatting with his hands raised after being forced off his motorbike.

"Any law enforcement activity should abide by the principles of human rights. A person who has surrendered should not be shot at and definitely not in front of his children and neighbours, who knew him as a good person," he said.

Mr Michdan said the lawsuit would be filed after Dujana's wife and four children were allowed to see the suspect. The family has not been allowed to visit him since he was detained.

SEMARANG, Indonesia (AP) - An Islamic militant was sentenced to six years in jail Monday for sending a laptop to one of the 2002 Bali bombers on death row so he could try to raise funds for future terror attacks, officials said.

Agung Setyadi, 31, sent the computer by special delivery to Imam Samudra, who was convicted for his role in the twin nightclub bombings on Oct. 12, 2002, that killed 202 people, said Edi Sudarmahono, a judge at the Semarang District Court.

Samudra used the computer to chat online with fellow militants for several months in late 2005 before he was transferred from Bali to the high-security prison island of Nusakembangan, police said.

``The defendant is guilty of assisting and facilitating the perpetrator of a terror crime,'' said Sudarmahono, in handing down the six-year sentence.

The warden who helped smuggle the laptop into Sumudara's cell was jailed for five years in a separate trial.

Indonesia has been hit by a string of attacks blamed on the Southeast Asian terror network Jemaah Islamiyah, the most deadly being the 2002 Bali bombings. Many of the victims were Western tourists.

Samudra and two brothers - Amrozi bin Nurhasim and Ali Ghufron - were sentenced to death in the attack.

Radical muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir has demanded the disbandment of the Indonesian anti-terrorism squad. (Reuters: Darren Whiteside)

Audio: Indonesia's Bashir takes anti-terrorism squad to court (AM)

Radical Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir has launched a group action in the Indonesian courts, demanding the disbandment of the country's elite anti-terrorism squad, Detachment 88.

The squad is named in memory of the 88 Australians who died in the 2002 bombings in Bali and is funded and supported by Australia.

Bashir served 26 months in jail for involvement in the first Bali bombing before his convictions were set aside by Indonesia's highest court last December.

The group action in Jakarta on behalf of those arrested by Detachment 88 claims torture, human rights violations, illegal questioning of detainees and discrimination against Muslims.

The hearing lasted only a few minutes before the judged adjourned it until next week.

Three men jailed for providing death row Bali bomber Imam Samudra with a laptop are preparing to launch an appeal against their sentences next week.

University lecturer Agung Setyadi, web designer Agung Prabowo and Bali jail warden Benny Irawan were last month each handed jail terms of five to six years under Indonesia's anti-terrorism laws in Semarang District Court.

They were found guilty in separate trials of purchasing and smuggling the laptop to the death row militant in his Bali prison cell in May 2005.

Reports have suggested that Samudra had helped plan other attacks, including the 2005 Bali suicide bombings that killed 20 people, but this was not raised by prosecutors at the recent trials.

Samudra and fellow Bali bombers Amrozi and Ali Ghufron, alias Mukhlas, are on death row for their roles in the 2002 Bali bombings which killed 202 people, including 88 Australians.

Setyadi's lawyer Budi Kuswanto said he would lodge the appeal with Central Java High Court next week.

"We will lodge the note of appeal hopefully next Thursday," Setyadi's lawyer, Budi Kuswanto, said on Friday.

Prabowo's lawyer Saiful Anam said he would also launch an appeal on behalf of his client.

The court previously heard that Samudra sent money to Setyadi to buy the laptop in May 2005.

Irawan then smuggled it wrapped in a newspaper into the prison tower, where Samudra was being housed along with the other two Bali bombers.

Under Samudra's order, Setyadi and Prabowo also created a terrorism website, providing tips on how to attack foreigners.

The three convicted terrorists were moved to a high security prison off the southern coast of Central Java in October 2005.