(Reuters) - The Supreme Court of Afghanistan's ruling Taliban will resume on Saturday the trial of eight foreign aid workers detained on charges of converting Muslims to Christianity, their defense lawyer said. ``The supreme court will sit on Saturday,'' Pakistani lawyer Atif Ali Khan told Reuters. Khan returned to a capital under fire, saying it was his duty to defend his clients since they had no one else to help them. "It is my obligation because my clients do not have their families or their diplomats here,'' he said when asked what prompted him to go back to Kabul while it was under attack from U.S.-led forces hunting down bin Laden. "I am the only person who can plead their case before the court.''
The fate of the eight will rest with approximately 15 judges who will evaluate Khan's defense and the evidence, consisting of statements, books and videos. Khan said he had prepared his reply to the charges of proselytizing and must have this translated into one of the official languages of Afghanistan -- Pashto or Dari -- before submitting it to the court. |