Hizbullah Cell Linked to Muslim Brotherhood, Aqsa Brigades…Egyptian Official Demands Trial for Nasrallah
Egypt”s High State Security prosecution continued investigation into the so-called Hizbullah cell.
The daily Al Mustaqbal said Monday that interrogation with detained member of the Muslim Brotherhood Nassar Jibril and others belonging to Aqsa Martyrs Brigades uncovered a link between Hizbullah and the two groups.
It quoted an Egyptian security source as saying that the detainees will be referred to trial in the coming days "after evidence is established against them."
The source described as "attempts aimed at wasting time" requests filed by the defense attorneys complaining their defendants have confessed under torture.
Lawyer Montasser al-Zayat, who represented Mohammed Youssef Mansour, also known as Sami Shehab, at a weekend hearing, said the investigations were "null and void" since they were conducted at night with each session lasting for more than ten hours with no regard to the defendant”s "mental and physical state."
"The charges must be nullified since they were extracted under coercion against the defendant, who was jailed for more than five months in an illegal detention center," Zayat said, adding that Mansour was not permitted to meet in private with his lawyer during the interrogation process.
Mansour was among 49 suspects arrested over the past five months and accused of plotting attacks in Egypt on behalf of Hizbullah, a claim the Lebanese group denied, saying Mansour was responsible for helping transport arms to the Gaza Strip.
The sources said investigation also uncovered that the Hizbullah cell has recruited members to work under Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, adding that five key detainees have acknowledged their previous membership in the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.
Meanwhile, Egypt”s Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Mufid Shehab demanded trial for Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.
"Under Egyptian law, the motivator is punished the same way as the doer," he said, in reference to Nasrallah.