Key legal question
Whether continued pretrial detention had to be lifted because the trial date violated the principle of celerity.
Extracted holding
The delay was still acceptable in the specific circumstances, mainly because the witness-appearance arrangements with the United States explained part of the postponement.
Extracted reasoning
A delay of over eight months is generally not admissible, but the case was serious and the international assistance steps for hearing a detained witness justified the postponement. The court rejected reliance on counsel's unavailability as a justification, yet found the remaining delay not particularly grave enough to make detention disproportionate.