(19 Jun 2003)
1. Wide exterior of courtroom compound
2. Wide shot of security checks
3. Judges arriving
4. Close-up shot of head judge Mohammad Soleh opening session
5. Alleged terrorist Abu Bakar Bashir arriving at courtroom, greeted with shouts of "God is Great" from his supporters
6. Close-up shot of Bashir's supporters
7. Bali bomb suspect Amrozi bin Nurhasyim arriving at courtroom with cheers from supporters
8. Close-up shot of Amrozi
9. Pan of courtroom
10. Mid shot of Amrozi
11. Tilt up from hands to Amrozi's face
12. Amrozi and Bashir's defence lawyers in background
13. Close-up shot of Bashir
14. Mid shot of Bashir and lawyer
15. SOUNDBITE (Bahasa Indonesia): Amrozi bin Nurhasyim, Bali bombing suspect:
"I saw my brother (Ali Gufron alias Mukhlas - another Bali bombing suspect) being tortured (by police detectives) and therefore I was afraid during my interrogation. I also received terror and threats to "beware - if you do not link yourself to Abu Bakar Bashir, you will get harsher treatment than your friends in Singapore and Malaysia. It will be more extreme.. " I witnessed my brother (being tortured) under interrogation."
16. Wide shot of courtroom
17. Mid shot of audience
18. SOUNDBITE: (Bahasa Indonesia) Amrozi bin Nurhasyim, Bali bombing suspect:
Q: (Prosecutor) So he (Faturahman al-Ghozi, Indonesian terror suspect in custody in the Philippines) told you that he was involved in the bombing of the residence of Philippines ambassador in Jakarta?
"(Amrozi) Yes he did."
Q: And what was your reply?
"I told him I bought the material (for the Bali bombing)."
Q: So you bought the material?
"Yes I did."
Q: Where did you buy the material?
"In Surabaya"
Q: What material did you buy?
"The bomb material."
19. Cutaway to courtroom audience
20. Wide shot of Amrozi escorted out of the courtroom
STORYLINE:
A key suspect in last year's Bali bombings told a court on Thursday that police had threatened him with torture unless he admitted he attended religious teachings by Abu Bakar Bashir, the alleged spiritual head of terror group Jemaah Islamiyah.
Amrozi bin Nurhasyim also said he witnessed police torture his older brother Ali Guhfron, alias Mukhlas, who is also a key suspect in the October 12 blasts that killed 202 people, mostly foreign tourists. Police immediately denied both accusations.
"We have proof that he (Amrozi) was never under pressure and was accompanied by lawyers during interrogations," said police spokesman Brig. Gen. Edward Aritonang.
Amrozi made the remarks in witness testimony at the trial of Bashir, who is accused of treason and a series of church bombings in 2002.
Prosecutors, quoting from police investigation notes, said Amrozi once stated that he attended religious instruction classes taught by Bashir in Malaysia.
"I made that up because I had seen in front of my own eyes police seriously torturing Mukhlas," Amrozi told the court.
"I was threatened by investigators that if I didn't talk then the torture would be more serious than those people arrested in Malaysia and Singapore."
There have been no allegations that Singapore and Malaysia have tortured any of the scores of Muslim militants that both countries have arrested over the last year.
Amrozi's testimony is likely to further weaken the prosecution case against Bashir. Several other prosecutions witnesses have failed to link the 64-year-cleric with terror activities in the region.
In February, lawyers for Imam Samudra, the alleged mastermind of the Bali attacks, also accused police of torturing their client to implicate Bashir in terrorism.
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