Indonesian cleric wins appeal
An Indonesian appeals court has cleared the radical Muslim cleric, Abu Bakar Ba’asyir, of subversion. But the court upheld his conviction on lesser charges of forging identity documents, and reduced his sentence from four to three years. Ba’asyir said he would now appeal to Indonesia’s supreme court. He was found guilty of subversion in September, but acquitted of the more serious charge of leading a treasonous plot against the government. Full Story