(Reuters) - The trial set for U.S. federal court in Virginia of a former Soviet army officer accused of being a Taliban fighter in Afghanistan has been postponed indefinitely, a spokesman for prosecutors said on Monday.
The trial of the Russian man, Irek Hamidullin, had been scheduled to begin on Monday in Richmond. Hamidullin, believed to be in his 50s, faces 15 criminal counts ranging from supporting terrorists to firearms charges stemming from his alleged orchestration of a 2009 attack on an Afghan border police base.
He was due to be the first military prisoner from Afghanistan tried in U.