“It was like a Hollywood movie,” said Shawkan. Except the bullets were
real. The tear gas was real. The tanks descending on protests across
Egypt were real. And the 1,000 people who were killed were all too real.
Journalist Shawkan, whose real name is Mahmoud Abu Zeid, photographed
the crackdown in Cairo in August 2013. For this he was arrested,
tortured and jailed. He is a prisoner of conscience.
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