Ahmad Mohamed Mahmoud
Year: 2011
Nationality: Egypt
Killed by:
Location: Cairo, Egypt
Press organization: Al-Ta'awun
What's Ahmad Mohamed Mahmoud's story?
Mahmoud, a reporter for the newspaper Al-Ta’awun, was shot on January 29 as antigovernment protests inCairo turned violent. His wife, Inas Abdel-Alim, told Al-Jazeera that herhusband had stepped on to his office balcony to record video of a confrontationbetween security forces and demonstrators on the street when securityforces spotted him. Abdel-Alim said that several witnesses told her a uniformedpolice captain yelled at Mahmoud to stop filming, but a sniper shot him in thehead before he could react. “They meant to kill him. They aimed at his headwith live ammunition,” Abdel-Alim said on Al-Jazeera. “The perpetrator did thisto him because he was filming what was happening. They didn’t want us to coverthe massacre that happened that day.” Mahmoud died after six days in a hospital in Cairo. His death was thefirst reported media fatality during the Egyptian uprising that started onJanuary 25.
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