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Wednesday, August 20, 2014
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014
Egypt sentences Israeli to life for spying
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleA Cairo court on Wednesday sentences an Israeli tried in absentia to life imprisonment and a Jordanian telecom engineer to 10 years in jail for espionage on behalf of Israel.
Bashar Ibrahim Abu Zeid from Jordan was arrested in April 2011 and accused of trying to recruit Egyptian engineers to help Israel intercept telephone calls in Egypt.
The Israeli, who is on the run, stands accused of working for the Jewish state’s spy agency Mossad.
Abu Zeid pleaded not guilty when the trial opened in October 2011 and charged the prosecution had tampered with the answers he gave during interrogation.
— AFP
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