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In Egypt, Young Men “Die for Nothing”

Categories: Middle East & North Africa, Egypt, Arts & Culture, Politics, Protest, War & Conflict

Egyptian blogger Zeinobia shares [1] photographs and a video of an 18-year-old revolutionary artist Eissa Essam. Essam was killed during clashes [2] on July 26 with Muslim Brotherhood supporters camped in the Rabaa Al Adawiya neighbourhood in Nasr City. Zeinobia describes Essam as the liberal son of an MB member, who was visiting his family at the sit-in when the clashes happened.

She writes:

I do not know who killed Eissa Essam for real, I know that he was shot in his back. His anti-MB friends say that he was killed by the Muslim brotherhood while his MB family says that he is killed by the police and its thugs. All I know that he was killed and his rights will be lost forever like those young men who died for nothing in the past three years. He will be another graffiti, another name used in that fight