Tarek al-Zumar is an Egyptian Islamist politician and the secretary-general of the Building and Development Party.
[3] Al-Zumar was imprisoned in 1984 on suspicion of involvement in the assassination of Anwar Sadat[2] and was released during the Egyptian Revolution of 2011.
[3] Al-Zumar and his cousin received a hero's welcome from the Muslim Brotherhood when they were released from prison.
[4] On October 6, 2012, al-Zumar was invited to attend a speech by Mohamed Morsi on the anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, seen as one of Sadat's great accomplishments.
[5] On 14 July 2013 Egypt's prosecutor general Hisham Barakat ordered his assets to be frozen.