A defense attorney for one of the 12 Jews on trial before Egypt’s highest military tribunal on charges of “espionage” in behalf of Israel charged last night that his client, Marcelle Nino, attempted to commit suicide because of the tortures to which she was subjected by the Egyptian authorities, it was reported here today from Cairo.
The dispatch said that the attorney said Miss Nino had attempted to kill herself because “she was tortured, beaten up and forced to talk under pressure.” A 13th defendant committed suicide in prison several weeks before.
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