19:48, 18 December 2014

Johar Tsarnaev arrives at court session in Boston

Eyewitnesses post in Twitter drawings from the courtroom in Boston. Photo by Boris Suranov for the "Caucasian Knot"

Johar Tsarnaev, accused of committing a terror act in Boston in April 2013, has arrived at the final stage of the preliminary hearing of his case. This is the first Tsarnaev's appearance in public since July 2013.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that according to investigators, Johar Tsarnaev, an ethnic Chechen, and his brother Tamerlan, who was killed at detention, organized a terror act during the Boston Marathon Run in April 15, 2013. Then, the explosion triggered by them killed three people and injured 282.

It is expected that the advocates' petition about a possible transfer of the trial from Boston to Washington, DC, will be discussed today at the session, The "TV-Centre" reports.

The website of the American NBC channel adds that prosecutors and Johar Tsarnaev's advocates should discuss the selection of the jury and the judge, according to the website of the.

The start of Johar Tsarnaev's trial is scheduled for January 5, 2015. If Tsarnaev is found guilty of using explosives that had caused human deaths, he is under threat of death penalty, the RBC reports.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.