Mustafa Hamza (born 1956) is an Egyptian commander of the military branch of the

al-Jama'a al-Islamiyya ( ar, الجماعة الإسلامية, "the Islamic Group"; also transliterated El Gama'a El Islamiyya; also called "Islamic Groups" and transliterated Gamaat Islamiya, al Jamaat al Islamiya, is an Egyptian Sunni Islamist movement, and ...

. He was sentenced to death in absentia by an Egyptian court in the Returnees from Afghanistan case. It is believed he took part in the 1981 assassination of Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat, the

attempted assassination of President Hosni Mubarak The Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ, ar, الجهاد الإسلامي المصري), formerly called simply Islamic Jihad ( ar, الجهاد الإسلامي, links=no) and the Liberation Army for Holy Sites, originally referred to as al-Jihad, and ...

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in June 1995. He was in Iran until May 2004, when he was extradited to Egypt. He was pardoned in 2012. In November 2017, Swiss TV reported that Mustafa Hamza is being held in

Tora Prison Tora Prison ( arz, سجن طره '; ) is an Egyptian prison complex for criminal and political detainees, located in Tora, Egypt. The complex is situated in front of the Tora El Balad metro station. The main buildings in the Tora Prison complex ar ...

and has been in detention for three years. His advocate, Adel Moawad, reportedly expected Hamza to be released in 2018 due to lack of evidence. Hamza is also known to go by the aliases Abu Hazem, Mohamed Gamal El-Sayed, Mohamed Gamal El-Sayed Ali Khalil.

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Year of death missing People sentenced to death in absentia 1956 births {{Crime-bio-stub