{"id":29796,"date":"2019-01-19T16:23:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-19T16:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=29796"},"modified":"2019-01-19T16:23:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-19T16:23:00","slug":"bali-bombing-80-year-old-abu-bakar-bashir-released-from-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=29796","title":{"rendered":"Bali Bombing: 80-year-old Abu Bakar Bashir released from prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"66.9026548673\">\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Eighty-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/archive\/2005\/03\/200849132843163495.html\">Abu Bakar Bashir<\/a> was jailed for 15 years for links to the 2002 nightclub bombings, in which more than 200 people were killed.<\/p>\n<p>Bashir&#8217;s lawyer said he had been released in accordance with the law, noting that Bashir was the oldest prisoner in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/indonesia.html\">Indonesia<\/a> and suffered from illness, but the release has not been without controversy.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Alexi O&#8217;Brien reports.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s lawyer&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":29797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}