Hizbullah Cell on Trial in Cairo Next Week
Informed Egyptian sources said that Egyptian Public Prosecutor Abdel Maguid Mahmoud would refer all arrested suspects belonging to the Hizbullah cell to trial days before the beginning of the Lebanese parliamentary elections on June 7.
The Egyptian daily independent As-Shorouq quoted informed sources on Saturday that cell suspects are to stand trial in a state security emergency court early next week.
27 suspects have been interrogated so far by Egyptian authorities, the include Egyptians, Sudanese, Palestinians and one Lebanese. 22 others are now fugitives from Justice.
Public prosecutors office said it would provide evidence and testimony detailing suspect”s movements, intentions and material evidence.
Earlier this year authorities in Cairo announced the arrest of Sami Shehab a Lebanese belonging to Hizbullah accusing him of forming a working cell on Egyptian territories in preparation of carrying out terror activities and spreading Islamic Shiite thought in the country.