A military jury at Guantanamo Bay has sentenced two Malaysians to an additional five years in confinement for their role in the 2002 Bali bombing. The sentence was reduced from 23 years due to a plea bargain and prosecutors missing court deadlines.
A military jury at Guantanamo Bay has sentenced two Malaysians to an additional five years in confinement on Friday for conspiring in the 2002 terrorist bombing that killed 202 people in Bali, Indonesia. After deliberating for about two hours on Friday (Jan 26), they returned with a sentence of 23 years, reported the New York Times correspondent in Guantanamo Bay .
The plea bargain agreement reached with the duo earlier had helped avert lengthy litigation and reduced the jail sentence to about five years from the recommended 23 years by the jury. Both Mohammed Farik Amin and Mohammed Nazir Lep could be freed by 2029. Both have been held in confinement in the United States since the summer of 2003. Prior to the decision by the jury, the next-of-kin of the Bali bombing victims had testified over the week at the military court.The US military judge Lt. Col. Wesley A. Braun ruled they could return in five years after cutting 311 days off Mohammed Farik’s sentence and 379 days off Mohammed Nasir’s because prosecutors missed court deadlines for turning over evidence to defence lawyers as they prepared their case. Both men who were now detained at Guantanamo had pleaded guilty to conspiring in a pair of suicide bombings on the resort island of Bali. The report quoted Mohammed Nazir’s lawyer Brian Bouffard as saying:'The pretrial agreement contemplates the possibility of repatriation before the sentence is complete.' When they were returned, he added, it would be to Malaysia’s state-run de-radicalisation programme and a lifetime of monitoring by national security authorities. They had been charged alongside Indonesian Encep Nurjaman, also known as Hambali. Last October, The New York Times reported Mohammed Farik and Mohammed Nazir had reached agreements with prosecutors at Guantanamo Bay to charges of being accessories to the terrorist attacks in Bali, and hence separating them from Hambali’s cas
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