CAIRO: Egypt on Tuesday added a new charge to a US-Israeli national who has been in custody since June accused of spying for Israel, the official MENA news agency reported.
State security prosecutor Hisham Badawi accused Ilan Grapel of "incitement to set fire to public property."
Grapel has already been accused of being an agent of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency and of sowing sectarian strife and chaos in Egypt during the uprising that ousted president Hosni Mubarak in February.
Egypt said earlier this month it was mulling his release.
Two days after his arrest in Egypt, which in 1979 became the first Arab state to make peace with Israel, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman strongly denied Grapel was a spy.
He insisted the whole thing was a mistake and accused Egyptian authorities of "bizarre behavior."
