Mustafa Hamza ( born 1956 ) is an Egyptian commander of the military branch of the Islamic Group . 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 in Addis Ababa in June 1995 , and the Luxor massacre , which killed more than 60 tourists and Egyptians in 1997 . He was in Iran until May 2004 , when he was extradited to Egypt . He was pardoned in 2012 . In November 2017 , Swiss TV reports that Mustafa Hamza is held in Tora Prison since three years . His advocate Adel Moawad expects him to be released in 2018 due to lack of evidence . Also goes by the aliases Abu Hazem , Mohamed Gamal El-Sayed , Mohamed Gamal El-Sayed Ali Khalil
Luxor massacre
Luxor massacre
Mustafa Ahmed Hassan Hamza