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Lawyer team to file lawsuit over Bali bombers' executions
The Jakarta Post , Jakarta | Mon, 11/10/2008 8:31 AM | National
The Bali bombers' team of lawyers, the Muslim Defence Team (TPM), are planning to file a lawsuit against the government over their clients' execution which they say violated human rights.
"The executions were not conducted in accordance with existing procedures. We are preparing to take legal action," one of the lawyers, Agus Setiawan, said as quoted by Antara.
The rights of the convicts' lawyers and families were violated because they had been forbidden to meet the convicts at Batu Prison, Nusakambangan Island, and were not able to fully take care of the bodies after the executions, Agus said.
Separately, Lulu Jamaluddin, the younger brother of Bali bomber Imam Samudera, said his family could not accept his brother's death.
"We will file a lawsuit against the Attorney General's Office," he said.
Amrozi, 47, Muklas (Ali Gufron), 48, and Imam, 38, were executed by firing squad near their prison, shortly after midnight early on Sunday, for their roles in the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people, including 88 Australians. (dre)
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Cam (not verified) — Mon, 11/17/2008 - 2:02pm
I would like to see the Jakarta Post drop this whole news story. Its done and dusted.
What's left is a bunch of lawyers trying to ride the gravy train till its very last drop.
Leave this drivel to the tabloids
Petra Ayudah (not verified) — Wed, 11/12/2008 - 12:55am
Are you kidding me? These are lawyers? Indeed it is a human rights violation but guess what?? Your clients conducted worse violations in the name of a religion that does not even propose violence. So you tell me, what kind of lawsuit are you going to make? It is about time some justice is served for these three men that call themselves 'martyrs'. I am a Muslim and I can you tell you now that I do not call these men heros or any of such kind. They were an uneducated bunch that unfortunately have a string of supporters who are blind to the fact that they are being used for someone else's own power hungry agenda. Muslims, Christians, Hindus and all other religions need to come together to oust these individual groups who kill in the 'name of religion'. It is these peopel that give us and other religious community members a bad name. Lawsuits against the execution for these men are simply ridiculous.
In the name of religion, we should demand peace and tolerance. Violence is never tolerated and these men have created a great deal of pain and suffering for many. These lawyers do not know what they are talking about and if they are looking into it for the monetary gain...they do not know what it truly means to be part of my, our, religion. They need to look back and into their narrow hearts to find the values and morals of what it really means to be part of this religion. And any other one for that matter.
Elijah (not verified) — Mon, 11/10/2008 - 4:16pm
So if the Bali Bombers lawyers sue the goverment does this give the same rights to the victims families to sue the executed families????
I always understood that islam followed the eye for an eye route. As these people are good muslims they should understand this. They wil not be martyrs as they have taken innocent lives. They will burn in hell for all eternity.
Altavida — Mon, 11/10/2008 - 8:53am
The Muslim Defender Team wants to sue the government over their decision to execute the bombers WHO by fact did take the innocent lives of 202 people?? Logically, bombing 2 bars resulting in the death and bloodshed of 202 is more of a violation of human rights instead of executing the 3 master minds behind the violent act! These three guys deserved their punishment and should have thought a million times before they did what they did becuase of the repercussions that it caused on such a global level. I don't at all feel sorry for the families of the bombers. If their family could not accept their death, then imagine what the victim's family feel? they did not choose to burn to death on that terrifying day. imagine how their family felt, not knowing where their beloved husband, wife, brother, sister was in the days following the blast because their body either burnt to ashes or was covered by the debris. imagine all the emotional and psychological trauma they have underwent. these 3 guys, DID choose to set off bombs which they knew would consequently lead to many deaths! fast forward 6 years, and they are executed. violence does stop violence but indonesia had to prove itself as a nation and i'm glad on the choice that the government made against the war of terror. anyway that was the fate they put upon themselves, they preferred to waste their life away instead of making the world better through non violent acts! poor them for holding on to nothing.