Three Jews were sentenced today to prison terms with hard labor on charges of “Communist and Zionist” espionage and attempts to overthrow the Egyptian Government by Egypt’s highest military tribunal, it was reported here in dispatches from Cairo. Four others, including a young woman identified as Joyce Blau, were acquitted.
The court which tried the seven Jews was the same one which condemned two other Jews to death in January on charges of espionage for Israel. The two Jews were subsequently hanged.
The Jews who were convicted today were: Henri Vita Cohen, 28, newspaper employee, who received an eight-year term; Joseph Osmo, 27, who received an eight-year term, and Nessim Nahamias, 19, who received three years.
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