The Indonesian scholar who was the ideological and spiritual leader of the Bali bombers is being granted early release from prison for what have been described as humanitarian reasons.
Eighty-year-old Abu Bakar Bashir was jailed for 15 years for links to the 2002 nightclub bombings, in which more than 200 people were killed.
Bashir’s lawyer said he had been released in accordance with the law, noting that Bashir was the oldest prisoner in Indonesia and suffered from illness, but the release has not been without controversy.
Al Jazeera’s Alexi O’Brien reports.
