Egypt's president directs recognition for family of terror victim after police raid on Hasm hideout

CAIRO – 20 July 2025: President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi has directed that the family of engineer Mostafa Anwar Afifi, killed during a police raid on a hideout for Hasm movement be added to the list of those eligible for recognition, according to reports.

The president’s directives for recognition of the victim’s family follow the established criteria of the national fund allocated for honoring the martyrs, victims, missing and the injured of war, security operations and terror attacks, alongside their families.

The Ministry of Interior said on Sunday that the bystander died of wounds after he had been shot randomly by terrorists during the raid in Cairo's Boulaq Ad Dakrour district.

The ministry asserted in a statement that security forces have eliminated two men belonging to Hasm movement, which it identifies as the Muslim Brotherhood's armed wing.

An officer was also injured while attempting to rescue the civilian, the interior ministry noted.

 

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The ministry said its operation has foiled a plot for the Muslim Brotherhood’s armed wing “to prepare and plan for reviving their activities and carrying out hostile operations against security and economic establishments.”

The Muslim Brotherhood was outlawed and designated by Egypt as terrorist after the ousting of the group-affiliated president, Mohamed Morsi, in 2013. The group has repeatedly claimed that they do not have an armed wing.

Hasm has been also designated as a terrorist group by Egypt as well as the United States and the United Kingdom.

Over the past decade, many top Muslim Brotherhood leaders have been convicted by Egyptian courts of committing violent and terrorist crimes with many members of the group receiving death sentences in charges including murder.