Egyptian judicial sources on Monday, anticipated that the captured Hizbullah cell in Egypt would go on trial in an emergency state-security court sometime next week.
The case against a Lebanese national known as Sami Shehab, who stands accused by Egyptian authorities of conspiring with some Palestinian and Egyptian nationals of forming a Hizbullah cell operating to smuggle arms from the Sinai to Gaza and of carrying out aggressive acts against Egypt.
The Kuwaiti daily al-Jarida quoted sources from Egypt”s state security prosecutors on Tuesday saying all legal investigative procedures are geared up for a trial.
27 individuals are accused in the case, 22 of whom remain at large so far.