Yassir al-Sirri

Yasser Tawfiq Ali El-Sirri (ياسر توفيق علي السري) (kunya Abu Ammar) is an Egyptian militant connected to the Vanguards of Conquest and al-Jama'a al-Islamiyya, sentenced to death in the 1998 Returnees from Albania trial.

Finding asylum in England, he became the director of the Islamic Information Centre. In 1982, he was given a dishonorable discharge from the Egyptian military after partaking in demonstrations against the government,

He fled to England in 1994 and claimed political asylum. He began producing the Islamic Media Monitor. He was arrested in October 2001, charged with helping Sattar support Omar Abdel-Rahman, but the charges were dismissed seven months later.

In 2005, he gave statements to the media alleging Hosni Mubarak had rigged the Egyptian elections, and encouraged citizens to boycott the election.

On August 7, 2002, Egypt arrested both al-Sirri's brothers in Suez and held them in administrative detention. Yahya Tawfiq ‘Ali al-Sirri was a football trainer, and Muhammad Tawfiq ‘Ali al-Sirri was an engineer. On October 1, 2003, his uncle Al-Sayid Muhammad Hassan ‘Abd al-Ghani was also arrested and became a ghost prisoner.

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