The second session of the trial of Tarek Abdel Rasek Hassan, an Egyptian accused of spying for the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, witnessed several surprises on Monday.
The defendant’s lawyer was permitted to talk to his client in private. He sat with Hassan for 15 minutes and emerged to announce that his client confirmed to him that he was forced to confess under torture after his arrest.
“I had to say what they wanted me to,” the defendant told the judge.
The lawyer requested that his client be examined in order to determine when he received his wounds and how they were caused, which the court agreed to.
The defendant also said that the letter the police had submitted to the court, in which he confessed to the Egyptian embassy in Beijing, was fraudulent.
The court then adjourned until 12 February.
Translated from the Arabic Edition.
