‘Israeli Spies’ Get Life in Prison

An Egyptian court has sentenced an Egyptian man and two Israeli citizens to life in prison for allegedly spying for Israel.

The Israeli citizens were sentenced in absentia, and are unlikely to travel to Egypt to serve their sentences.

The Egyptian man, Salama Muhammed Saliman, was convicted of giving the two Israelis information regarding both Egypt-based terrorist groups and Egyptian troops in the Sinai Peninsula. Despite Egypt’s peace treaty with Israel, the Egyptian court found that Saliman’s actions were “harmful to state security.”

The sentence follows a similar case in March, in which an Egyptian man was sentenced to life in prison for allegedly passing information to Israel.