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| Woman Is Killed as Egypt Police Halt Marchers Carrying Flowers to Tahrir Square | Woman Is Killed as Egypt Police Halt Marchers Carrying Flowers to Tahrir Square |
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| A woman was killed on Saturday in Cairo after the police fired shotgun pellets at a handful of socialist activists marching to Tahrir Square with flowers to commemorate the hundreds of demonstrators killed there during the revolution that began on Jan. 25, 2011, witnesses said. | |
| The protester, Shaimaa al-Sabbagh, was shot at close range and died a short time later, according to a statement from the organizers of the march reported by Aswat Masriya, a local news site supported by the Thomason Reuters foundation. | |
| Egyptian activists shared graphic images of Ms. Sabbagh’s last moments on social networks, including video posted on YouTube by the state-owned Middle East News Agency of a man carrying her body from the scene. | |
| Photographs and video recorded before the police moved in seemed to show the protesters, including Ms. Sabbagh, standing peacefully outside the Air France-KLM office in Talaat Harb Square, near Tahrir Square. | Photographs and video recorded before the police moved in seemed to show the protesters, including Ms. Sabbagh, standing peacefully outside the Air France-KLM office in Talaat Harb Square, near Tahrir Square. |
| News photographs taken before the police arrived showed the protesters holding a wreath of flowers and a banner that read: “The fourth anniversary of the martyrs who died during the January 25 revolution.” | News photographs taken before the police arrived showed the protesters holding a wreath of flowers and a banner that read: “The fourth anniversary of the martyrs who died during the January 25 revolution.” |
| A spokesman for the Health Ministry, Hossam Abdel Ghaffar, confirmed the young woman’s death to Mada Masr, an independent news site, but suggested that Ms. Sabbagh had been killed during “clashes” between protesters and security forces. | A spokesman for the Health Ministry, Hossam Abdel Ghaffar, confirmed the young woman’s death to Mada Masr, an independent news site, but suggested that Ms. Sabbagh had been killed during “clashes” between protesters and security forces. |
| The killing of an unarmed woman, last seen peacefully holding a sign on a sidewalk in downtown Cairo, outraged activists and reminded some of images of the fatal shooting of a young Iranian protester, Neda Agha-Soltan, in 2009. | The killing of an unarmed woman, last seen peacefully holding a sign on a sidewalk in downtown Cairo, outraged activists and reminded some of images of the fatal shooting of a young Iranian protester, Neda Agha-Soltan, in 2009. |
| In a statement, the Interior Ministry denied that the police had shot Ms. Sabbagh, reported Ahram Online, a state-owned news site, and warned Egyptians not to attend unsanctioned rallies that “terrorist groups” could infiltrate. A ministry spokesman, Hany Abdel Latif, insisted during a television interview late Saturday that the police had not fired any shots and the authorities had video of protesters carrying rifles. | In a statement, the Interior Ministry denied that the police had shot Ms. Sabbagh, reported Ahram Online, a state-owned news site, and warned Egyptians not to attend unsanctioned rallies that “terrorist groups” could infiltrate. A ministry spokesman, Hany Abdel Latif, insisted during a television interview late Saturday that the police had not fired any shots and the authorities had video of protesters carrying rifles. |
| Those denials angered many opposition activists, who reminded their followers via social media that the initial focus of the 2011 protests, timed to coincide with the annual Police Day holiday on Jan. 25, was the impunity of the security forces. | Those denials angered many opposition activists, who reminded their followers via social media that the initial focus of the 2011 protests, timed to coincide with the annual Police Day holiday on Jan. 25, was the impunity of the security forces. |