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Egyptian convicted of spying for Israel dies in jail

RIA Novosti

02/07/2007 13:06 CAIRO, July 2 (RIA Novosti) - An Egyptian, serving a 15-year sentence for spying for Israeli intelligence, was found dead by prison officers in a jail near Cairo Monday morning, the local media said.

Egyptian special services arrested al-Filali in 2000 on charges of supplying Israel's Mossad with military, political, and economic information about Egypt in exchange for money. Israel denied any involvement.

Sherif al-Filali was first acquitted of the charges in 2001 but convicted a year later in a retrial ordered by President Hosni Mubarak.

The cause of al-Filali's death is being investigated.

Al-Filali was one of several Egyptians recently convicted over providing Israel with sensitive information. In late June, an Egyptian engineer at the state Atomic Energy Agency received a life sentence for passing documents about a nuclear reactor.

Earlier this year, another man with dual Egyptian-Canadian citizenship was sentenced to 15 years in prison and fined about $1,500 for spying for the Jewish state. Investigators said the man had gathered information on Arabs living in Turkey and Canada for the Israeli secret service.



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