1981 Sadat Assassination Victims Now Included in Martyrs Fund
Cabinet Decision No. 28 of 2026 grants the same status and benefits, effective the day after its publication in the Official Gazette.
Victims killed during the assassination of former President Anwar El-Sadat at the October 6th, 1981 military parade are to be included in Egypt’s Fund for Honouring Martyrs, Victims, Missing Persons, and Those Injured in War, Terrorist and Security Operations and Their Families.
The inclusion follows Cabinet Decision No. 28 of 2026, issued by Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly and published in the Official Gazette. Under the decision, those killed in the attack will receive the same status and benefits granted to victims of terrorist operations covered by the fund. The measure takes effect the day after its publication.
The beneficiaries named in the decision are engineer Samir Helmy Ibrahim, who served as head of the Central Auditing Organization between 1978 and 1981; Bishop Samuel (Saad Aziz Ibrahim), a senior Coptic Orthodox cleric and member of the committee appointed to oversee church affairs following the removal of Pope Shenouda III; and Mohamed Youssef Rashwan, former personal photographer to El-Sadat.
El-Sadat was assassinated during the annual military parade commemorating Egypt’s October War victory when members of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad group opened fire on the presidential reviewing stand.
