Death penalty urged for Bali bomb 'mastermind'
Indonesian prosecutors today demanded that the alleged mastermind of last year’s bombings on the Indonesian island of Bali be sentenced to death.
Around 50 people present in court, several of them relatives of foreign victims of the October 12 attack, applauded when the sentence demand was read out.
Imam Samudra, a 33-year-old Islamic militant, has already admitted to taking part in the blasts that killed 202 people, mostly foreign tourists enjoying an evening out in a popular nightclub strip on the island.
“The accused has been proven to have committed an act of terrorism that caused massive casualties,” said prosecutor I Nyoman Dila before urging judges to sentence Samudra to death.
