Bali bomb maker Umar Patek could be released early from Indonesian jail
by Josh Butler and Johanes Hutabarat in Jakarta from World news | The Guardian on (#62NP6)
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Umar Patek, the bomb maker who helped assemble the devices used in the 2002 bombing in Bali, could walk free early from prison this year.
The Indonesian ministry of law and human rights regional office in East Java has proposed the early release after the ex-member of Jemaah Islamiyah, an Indonesian terror group linked to al-Qaida, completed two-thirds of his sentence, plus remissions.
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