Here is the report on the hearing today, Sept. 5, 2006:
 The hearing was opened at 11.40 A.M., the defendants were in the court room,
 but the the defense lawyers had not arrived.
 The judge asked the defendants to sit in the defendants' chairs,
 but the defendants did not respond to the request.
 Before the judge ruled that the defendants should be
 returned to detention because their lawyers were not present,
 four of the defense lawyers arrived.
 The defense lawyers asked the judge for permission to enter the hearing,
 which was granted,
 and then the defense lawyers asked the defendants to sit in the defendants' chairs.
 The six defendants did agreed to sit in the defendants' chairs
 (the seventh defendant was not present because of illness).
 The four defense lawyers asked the judge whether the hearing
 could be suspended until their colleague Johnson Panjaitan arrived,
 but the judge ruled to continue the hearing without the presence of Mr. Panjaitan.
 Mr. Panjaitan did arrive later,
 but was not allowed to join the other defense lawyers until the next session began. 
The hearing continued and the prosecutors summoned Patsy Spier to testify.
 The questioning eventually came to ask her to describe the ambush.
 When she had described (with a Bahasa interpreter)
 the events that lead up to the ambush (about 10 minutes of testimony)
 one of the defense lawyers objected and asked the court,
 or the prosecutors,
 to provide an interpreter in the interest of the defendants,
 since according to the defense lawyers,
 the defendants could not speak or understand Bahasa.
 The defense lawyers told the court that the defendants only spoke Amungme.
 The prosecutors responded that in the process of the investigation
 that the need of an interpreter was never mentioned by the defense lawyers.
 The prosecutors said that they saw that the defendants did understand Bahasa
 and that Bahasa only needed to be spoken slowly and carefully.
The judges then ordered the prosecutors to find an interpreter for the defendants,
 and the hearing was suspended until 2:00 P.M.
 Shortly before 2:00 P.M. the hearing was re-opened and because the
 prosecutors had not produced an interpreter,
 the hearing was suspended until Friday, September 8th 2006.