CAIRO TRIAL
(N.Z.PA.-Reuter—Copyright) CAIRO, May 12. Egypt's former intelligence chief, Salah Nasr, has gone on trial on charges of seizing State funds, indecency, blackmail and torture. The indictment alleges that the stocky, black-moustached official lured women to a Cairo flat and photographed them, subsequent'y using the pictures for blackmail. He is also accused of arresting people illegally and torturing them, and of using his post for personal gain.
Nasr appears with three other former senior intelligence officials, Hussein Eleish, Hamdy Alshamy and Aly Ahmed Aly, before a revolutionary tribunal headed by Viee-Presldent Hussein el Shafie.
The tribunal has already tried 54 defendants, including Nasr, on charges of attempting to overthrow the Government by force in the wake of Egypt’s war defeat last June. Verdicts in both trials will be announced simultaneously.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31677, 13 May 1968, Page 13
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