‘Abbūd al-Zumur, a leading member of al-Jamā’ah al-Islāmīyah and one of the convicted persons in the 1981 assassination of former Egyptian President Anwar al-Sādāt, filed a lawsuit at the State Council demanding a court ruling obliging the interior minister to remove his name from any criminal records in the ministry.

Zumur, who had been sentenced to a 20-year term in prison, which he already served and spent 10 years more during the former regime of President Husnī Mubārak, deposed in the January 25, 2011 revolution, said failure to have his name removed from criminal records at the interior ministry’s public security department is against the law and badly affecting his reputation, future and family.