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xinhua

CAIRO, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- Egypt's Emergency State Security Court on Saturday adjourned the trial of three spies working for Israeli intelligence agency Mossad to another session scheduled for next Monday.

According to local press reports, the court rescheduled the trial as Esmat Talaat, the lawyer of the Egyptian spy, announced that she will refrain from defending him, saying that he is a traitor.

The court is awaiting a new lawyer chosen by the accused Egyptian businessman Tarek Abdel Razek to defend him.

The other two agents who are Israelis will be tried in absent.

In late December, the Egyptian security revealed a spy ring that included an Egyptian and two Israelis. Abdel Razek, owner of an import-export firm, was arrested and charged in August with spying for Israel starting from May 2008.

Investigations revealed that the spy ring had succeeded in establishing two communications office in Cairo and London, through which they recorded telephone calls of Egyptian government officials and transferred the information to Israel.