Terror hearings postponed
Hearings for the 56 people rounded up in a recent anti-terror sweep in Morocco scheduled for this week have been postponed to an unspecified date, judicial officials said today.
The first of three batches of suspects was to go before an investigating magistrate today in the city of Sale, but the hearing was postponed because the judge, Abdelkader Chintou, was tied up in meetings at the Justice Ministry, said Chintou’s assistant, Maria Regregui.
All 56 suspects were scheduled to pass before the judge between today and Thursday, after which the court was to decide whether to pursue trials, according to lawyer Taoufik Moussaif.
The court has up to two months to make that decision.
