Terror suspect sentenced to 11-year imprisonment in Indonesia

Source: Xinhua| 2018-09-13 22:32:36|Editor: yan
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JAKARTA, Sept. 13 (Xinhua) -- An Indonesian court sentenced a terrorist group member to 11 years in jail on Thursday for his plan to attack a police station and the headquarters of police's mobile brigade in western Riau province last year.

The quantum of sentence was lower than the 13 years demanded by the persecutor in the previous trial.

Judging panel said the defendant, Wawan Kurniawan alias Abu Afif, had never showed his regret over his plans to attack the police facilities.

"Judging panel stated that the defendant had obviously committed terrorism crime," head of the judging panel Soehartono said in a West Jakarta court.

Wawan, a member of homegrown terrorist group Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD), was arrested along with five others who plotted the attacks in the province in October last year.

He and other suspects were detained in police's mobile brigade central headquarters in Depok, West Java, pending their trials.

Police seized pistols, guns and machetes believed to be used in their planned attacks.

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