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.