Vice-President Al-Hashimi made an official request that his trial be moved from Baghdad to Kirkuk or Khanaqin, which was rejected by the judicial authorities. On 22 February, the Higher Judicial Council announced that the trial would start on 3 May. source
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Supreme Judicial determines the third of May, the date for trial and his brother-Hashimi in Baghdad .
Detect the Supreme Judicial Council, Tuesday, for determining the third of May, the next date for the trial of Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi, to be melted down in absentia in accordance with Article Four of terrorism.
A spokesman for the Supreme Judicial Council, Abdul Sattar Bayraktar for "Twilight News", "the investigative panel in the case of al-Hashemi referred the three crimes in one case to the Vice President of the Republic of the accused and his brother Ahmad Qahtan to the Central Criminal Court in Karkh, according to Article 4 terrorism to be tried in absentia."
He pointed out that "the trial date set on 05/03/2012, Harbin, and because they were deployed in the Report of daily newspapers for the day with their presence in the trial date and not be tried in absentia."
It was Tariq al-Hashemi said in a televised speech, on Monday, "Wait a Council response to the elimination of what made him and is to transfer the case to Kirkuk, and Criminal Court to the Federal Supreme Court and the declassification of the investigation," adding, "Otherwise, the Judicial Council, deprive me of my right in the district just Saljo then to the international community who expressed his readiness to defend my point of view. "
Hashemi and faces charges related to terrorism, which issued an arrest warrant, after he offered to the Ministry of Interior Confessions of a group of protected acts of violence on their orders directly from him.
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