His brother, Salman, carried out the suicide attack after returning to Manchester from Libya.
Hashem was extradited to Britain in 2019 and convicted at the Old Bailey on March 17 2020.
He is also serving a three-year and ten-month sentence for attacking the manager of the high security unit in Belmarsh jail in May 2020, two months after his conviction.
Abedi is now charged with three counts of attempted murder on three different officers and one count of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, on a fourth officer, on April 12 this year.
He is also accused of unauthorised possession of several makeshift knives that he had allegedly crafted from metal cooking trays.
The attack allegedly occurred after Abedi emerged from a kitchen on the separation unit at category-A HMP Frankland in Durham with a pan of hot oil and allegedly poured it over one officer before stabbing him in the neck with a makeshift knife.
Three other officers came to his aid and were also attacked. Two of them needed surgery for the injuries they suffered and another suffered a broken finger.
Abedi was due to appear at Westminster Magistrates Court by video link from Belmarsh jail today, where he has been transferred, but did not turn up and was not represented by a lawyer.
The chief magistrate, Paul Goldspring, told the short hearing: 'I have no power to deal with him in his absence.
'I can order that he ought to appear before the court, and the prison governor then has the power to authorise the use of force.
'All I need to do is see him on a laptop from his cell or in a video link room.'
The case was adjourned until September 25.
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