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Photographer Is First Media Fatality in Egypt; Situation Remains Dangerous | PDNPulse

A photographer for an Egyptian newspaper reportedly died last week of gunshot wounds sustained during the protests against Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. Meanwhile, as the protests seem to be losing steam, foreign photographers are reporting that the s

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The Committee to Protect Journalists reported on Friday that Ahmad Mohamed Mahmoud, a journalist working for the newspaper Al-Ta’awun, died of gunshot wounds inflicted January 28. Al-Ahram, another paper that owns Al-Ta’awun, reported that a police officer saw Mahmoud filming the clashes and ordered him to stop. He complied, according to Al-Ahram, but the police officer shot him anyway, hitting him in the eye. Seven eyewitnesses recorded the shooting on their mobile cameras, Al-Ahram reported.