Shooting the Messenger: Egyptian Journalist Shot Dead By Sniper While Covering Cairo Protests

"The only journalist known to have been killed during the Egyptian uprising was honored Monday in Cairo. Ahmed Mohammed Mahmoud was a reporter for the state-owned newspaper Al Tawuun. He was shot January 28 when he tried to use his phone to film riot police as they fired tear gas canisters at protesters. He spent a week in the hospital before he died on February 4. On Monday, journalists, family and friends held a symbolic funeral in Cairo, marching from the Journalists’ Syndicate to Tahrir Square holding an empty coffin. We speak to Al Jazeera English producer and writer Laila Al-Arian who has just returned from Cairo where she interviewed Mahmoud’s widow...."