Research Paper On Shaima El-Sabbah

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A woman named Shaimma El-sabbagh was participating for a protest for the fourth anniversary of the Egypt revolution in Cairo's Tahrir square. She was killed in the protest and so were 16 other people who were killed by some policemen. The policemen are saying that they didn't shoot her, but only used a tear gas as they stopped the protest, but people are saying that the police shot her and killed her. A prosecutor is having an investigation on what actually happened to El-sabbagh death and the other 16 as well that day. The prosecutor is bringing in policemen in for some questioning. I can relate to this article with the boston massacre.it was like a protest but wasn't really like one. In the article it said that a woman was killed and

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