25 Years in Cairo’s Prisons for an “Israeli” Spy

An Egyptian court Wednesday sentenced an Egyptian businessman to 25 years in jail following his conviction for spying on behalf of the Zionist entity.

Tarek Abdel Rezek Hussein, 37, was convicted of recruiting operatives for the Mossad and of giving the espionage agency information about young Egyptians, Syrians, and Lebanese working in telecommunications and recruited likely agents for Mossad.

Abdel Rezek Hussein, the owner of an import-export firm, was arrested in August. Two "Israelis", who were also accused of being his Mossad handlers, were also sentenced to life terms. The two were not in Egyptian custody.

The Egyptian press had dubbed the affair the "Indian Trap," because the spy first met his handlers at the Egyptian embassy in India.

Hussein was arrested at Cairo's airport in August 2010, in the possession of print and electronic documents that included the resumes of Egyptian and other Arab young people.