Egypt: Video Shows Police Shot Woman At Protest - Ensure Credible, Impartial Investigation

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New York — Photographs, videos, and witness statements strongly indicate that a member of Egypt's security forces was responsible for fatally shooting a female protester in a downtown Cairo square on January 24, 2015, Human Rights Watch said today.

Evidence analyzed by Human Rights Watch shows a uniformed police officer apparently directing a masked man who fires a shotgun toward a group of about two dozen peaceful protesters whom police were dispersing from Talaat Harb Square.

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