State security prosecutors have started interrogating an Egyptian national accused of spying for Israel, Judge Hisham El-Qarmouty, general attorney of the State Security High Prosecution, said on Tuesday.
This month, an Israeli spy jailed in Egypt began a hunger strike demanding to be released. Ouda Trabin, a Bedouin, was arrested in Egypt 12 years ago on charges of espionage and received a life sentence in 2000.
Egypt was negotiating with Israel last May to exchange 65 Egyptians imprisoned in Israel for Trabin, but the deal was not finalised.
Palestinian Ayman Sharawna, who was on hunger strike in an Israeli jail for almost eight months until 17 March, revealed that over 60 Egyptian prisoners remain in Israeli prisons.
In October 2011, Egypt freed a US-Israeli citizen under a prisoner exchange after he was arrested in Cairo and accused of working for Israel’s Mossad spy agency and sowing sectarian strife in Egypt, allegations he denied.