Egypt - Government Denies Knowledge of any Dead or Hospitalized Journalists

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"Health" and denying the death of a journalist in the field of editing

الجمعة، 4 فبراير 2011 - 22:02

Friday, February 4, 2011 - 22:02

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Demonstrators in Tahrir Square

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Written by Amira Abdel-Salam



Ministry of Health denied the death of any of the journalists today, Friday, or who were in hospitals, and confirmed that after reviewing the data and lists of hospitals with the Ministry of Health found the absence of any of the journalists among the injured or deceased.

Also denied the mobile hospital units Almtwajaddedp in the field of editing and ambulance facility of any cases of death of journalists, both within or outside the field.



Al Arabiya has said little since the news confirms the death of an Egyptian journalist large wounds, and while he was in the field of editing.

http://youm7.com/News.asp?NewsID=346437&SecID=65&IssueID=150

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Re: Egypt - Government Denies Knowledge of any Dead or Hospitalized Journalists

Journalist dies of injury in Egypt protests-Jazeera

Fri Feb 4, 2011 11:33pm GMT

CAIRO Feb 4 (Reuters) - An Egyptian journalist wounded in protests against the rule of President Hosni Mubarak has died of his injuries, his wife told Al Jazeera television on Friday.

Ahmed Mohammed Mahmoud, who worked with state-owned daily al-Ahram, died on Jan. 29 during protests that began four days earlier against poverty, corruption and political repression. He is the first journalist known to have died in the unrest.
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Mahmoud's wife, whose name the channel did not give, said he was shot in the head while filming clashes from the balcony of his home. (Reporting by Andrew Hammond; Editing by Jon Hemming)

Full text:

http://af.reuters.com/article/egyptNews/idAFLDE71329T20110204

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Re: Egypt - Government Denies Knowledge of any Dead or Hospitalized Journalists

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By Tamim Elyan / Daily News Egypt


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February 7, 2011, 11:20 pm


</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=397><TBODY><TR><TD></TD><TD></TD><TD></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD>CAIRO: Hundreds of journalists and protestors organized a symbolic funeral Monday in Tahrir Square for Ahmed Mahmoud, a journalist at Al-Ahram Foundation, who died last Friday as a result of a gunshot head injury in his office.

The protestors called for the prosecution of President Hosni Mubarak who they said was responsible of Mahmoud's death. They attacked Makram Mohamed Ahmed, head of the Journalists' Syndicate, for his "weak reaction".

Mahmoud, 36, a journalist at Al-Ta'awon, a publication issued by Al-Ahram, was shot by a police officer on Jan. 29 while taking pictures of the protests from the balcony of his office in Qasr Al-Aini Street.

He was transferred to Qasr Al-Aini hospital by his colleagues after the ambulance refused to take him when they learnt that he was shot by the Ministry of Interior, according to his family, and remained in a coma for five days before passing away last Friday.

Read more:

http://www.thedailynewsegypt.com/world/hundreds-mourn-killed-journalist-as-assaults-on-media-continue.html

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