CAIRO, July 26 (Xinhua) -- Egypt's Attorney General Abdel-Meguid Mahmoud referred 26 men suspected of links with Shiite armed group Hezbollah to the Supreme Court of Emergency State Security on Sunday.
The attorney general said in a statement that the men are accused of carrying out acts of terrorism and espionage.
The arrested included 18 Egyptians, 5 Palestinians, 2 Lebanese and one Sudanese, according to the statement.
Earlier in April, Egypt had arrested 49 men for allegedly being Hezbollah agents, accusing them of planning hostile operations in Egypt.
A few days after the arrest, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah admitted that one of the arrested in Egypt is a Hezbollah member named Sami Shehab.
Nasrallah tried to justify the presence of Shehab in Egypt by saying that his mission was to provide assistance for the Palestinians through the Egyptian-Palestinian borders. He, however, denied any plot for attacks inside Egypt.
Hezbollah, the Iran-backed Shiite group, has been at odds with Egypt, the Sunni-dominated country, since the 22-day Gaza war, in which Hezbollah accused Egypt of collaborating with Israel in closing its Rafah border crossing, Gaza's sole gateway that bypasses the Jewish state.
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