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| Hezbollah members allege torture in Egypt jail | |
| 2009-08-24 | |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] Twenty-six men accused of plotting attacks in Egypt as members of Lebanon's Hezbollah resistance group claimed they were tortured by police in custody ahead of their trial, which began in a Cairo court on Sunday. The cell of alleged members, dressed in white as they stood in a cage behind the dock, denied the charges of "conspiracy to murder, spying for a foreign organization with intent of conducting terrorist attacks and weapons possession."
Four more accused are on the run and are being tried in absentia, including alleged Lebanese mastermind Mohammed Qublan. During the hearing one man shouted "We are at your command Nasrallah," in an apparent reference to Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah who admitted in April that one of the defendants, Lebanese Mohammed Yusuf Ahmed Mansur known as Sami Shihab, was a Hezbollah agent tasked with smuggling weapons in to the Gaza Strip. But several of the Egyptian defendants declared in unison from the cage: "We live and die as Egyptians. We will never betray our country." | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 This is Egypt, which does not have a habeus corpus law or a Bill of Rights. What on earth did they expect, and why do they fancy anyone on earth cares? |
| Posted by: trailing wife in Buffalo 2009-08-24 22:34 |