Indonesian authorities have moved the jailed spiritual leader of the 2002 Bali bombers from a notorious prison island amid demands by lawyers to end his "inhumane" treatment.
The ailing 77-year-old Abu Bakar Bashir was confined to a tiny isolation cell on Nusa Kambangan after the January 14 suicide bombings in the Indonesian capital Jakarta to prevent him from radicalising other prisoners and to cut him off from extremist networks.
Hendra Eka Putra, the chief warden, said Bashir was moved on Saturday to Gunung Sindur prison, about 50 kilometres southeast of Jakarta.
Bashir's lawyer Mohammad Mahendradatta said on Thursday that the condition of Bashir's 2 square metre cell was "simply shocking, and inhumane treatment against him is causing his health to deteriorate".
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