Egypt’s Supreme Military Court began the trial of 13 Egyptian Jews this week-end on charges of espionage on behalf of Israel and of allegedly having placed bombs in British and American buildings in Egypt in an attempt to discredit Egypt abroad, it was reported here today from Cairo. The prosecutor demanded the death penalty.
The dispatch said that all 13 Jews pleaded innocent to charges. The defendants are being tried in absentia. They are charged with organizing espionage in Egypt for Israel; conveying vital information to Israel; trying to cause disorders in Egypt through terror and bombings, and placing bombs in the U.S. Information Office, British Embassy and other places in Egypt frequented by foreigners.
(An Israel Foreign Ministry spokesman in Jerusalem, commenting on the trial in Cairo, declared yesterday that the charges against the Egyptian Jews were “fabricated” and calculated to justify the detention of the Bat Galim, Israel vessel seized in the Suez Canal.)
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