Police to Extend Abu Bakar Ba`asyir`s Detention Period

Jakarta, The detention period of Abu Bakar Ba`asyir is to be extended when it expires on December 13, 2010, Jakarta police spokesman Senior Commissioner Boy Rafli Amar said here on Friday.

Ba`asyir`s detention would be extended by 60 days in line with the law on criminal procedures for terrorism-related cases.

He said the police had already issued a permit for Ba`asyir to get medical treatment outside the police`s detention facility.

According to plans, Ba`asyir, the chief of the Al Mukmin Islamic Boarding School in Ngruki, Solo, Central Java, would undergo surgery at Pertamina Hospital because of a problem in his left eye.

Ba`asyir could only see light with his left eye, a problem he had been suffering from for past six months.

Ba`asyir also had a problem with his left leg and other physical disorders because of lack of light in his cell.