Saturday, 26 November 2011

One more young man's death in Cairo

It is tense today in Cairo, just two days before Egypt's scheduled elections.

This morning, at 9am, barely 12 hours since I interviewed a group of protestors outside the Parliament buildings, the police intervened at Shaari Magles el Shaab. One man was killed after being run over by an armoured police vehicle, and several others injured. My friend, Ahmed Samih, who witnessed the incident, described how the police vehicle sped off, seemingly in panic as those inside realised what they had done. Later in the day a rudimentary shrine appeared at the place where the young man died. His name, written on the street in red paint, was Ahmed El Sayed Sorour. He was 19 years old.

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