BEIRUT: A Lebanese military court Monday warned Muslim preacher
Omar Bakri that he would be tried in absentia if he fails to show up once more
for his trial on terrorism-related charges.
Bakri, and his lawyer, Hezbollah MP Nawwar Sahili, both failed
to show up for Monday’s trial at the military tribunal.
The president of the military court, Judge Nizar Khalil set
March 5, 2012 as a new trial date and warned Bakri in a letter that if he fails
to show up for this trial he would be prosecuted in absentia.
Bakri is a controversial preacher with joint Lebanese-Syrian
nationality. He spent 20 years preaching in Britain following involvement with
Syria’s Muslim Brotherhood and Hizb Ut-Tahrir in Lebanon.
Bakri, who insists that accusations made against him were
politicized, was detained in November last year upon the request of a tribunal
judge for undermining the state authority and inciting violence against the
Lebanese Army.
He was
sentenced to life in jail after being convicted of inciting murder and
supporting contraband militant groups, but released on bail only 10 days later,
after the court began a retrial.
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