Egyptian jailed for life on Israel spy charges
By : Fox
An Egyptian
court Sunday sentenced to jail a man convicted of spying for Israel in the
Sinai Peninsula where security forces are fighting an Islamist insurgency,
judicial officials said.
Two Israeli
accomplices of the jailed Egyptian were tried in Absentia and also given life
terms, the officials added.
In a verdict
delivered by a court in North Sinai, the three were also slapped with fines of
10,000 Egyptian pounds (about $1,130 or 1,200 euros) each. In Egypt, a life
sentence amounts to 25 years.
Prosecutors
said the convict, Salamah Mohamed Suleiman, received money and was also given a
house in Israel in return for providing his Israeli handlers with information
about Egyptian security forces and jihadists in North Sinai.
Suleiman also
illegally travelled to Israel five times -- the first visit being in 2011 -- to
work out the details of his mission that intended to "harm Egypt's
national interests", the prosecution said.
In March, an
Egyptian man was sentenced to life in jail and a woman to 15 years for syping
for Israel.
Their two
Israeli handlers were sentenced in absentia to life in jail.
In two other
cases over the past few months, an Egyptian and a Jordanian telecommunications
engineer have been jailed for 10 years on similar charges.
The Egyptian
military has poured troops and armour into the Sinai to quell the insurgency
spearheaded by a local Islamic State group affiliate.
Sinai
Province, previously known as Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, has staged some of the
deadliest attacks against Egypt's security forces since the army ousted
Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in July 2013.
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