The Egyptian accused in spying for Israel to be tried in January

Egyptian judicial sources said on Monday in Cairo that the supreme state security court for emergency issues will start next month ( January) debating the spying case for Israel in which was accused the Egyptian Sharif Fawzi al- Filali. Advisor Wahid Mahmoud told journalists that al-Filali will be brought before the court in January 13th.

The court will be presided by advisor Muhammad Asem al-Jawhari, chairman of the Supreme state security court. Earlier the state's security council accused al-Filali of spying for the Israeli Mossad and collecting information damaging the interests of the country, in an agreement with the fleeying Russian Gregory Jevens.

The Egyptian higher state security accused the Russian man with the charge of committing the crime of damaging Egypt's national and political interests.

On September 27, the Egyptian general intelligence informed the Egyptian attorney general that the accused Egyptian (34 year old), was recruited for the Mossad while he was in Spain and that he was by the Russian for two Mossad's officers, who trained him ( al-Filali ) to collect information and sending it, photographing certain military areas and gathering information on the development of the Russian, Egyptian and American weapons. Al-Filali faces the penalty of long life imprisonment.