Shaimaa el-Sabbagh, a 31-year-old mother and a poet, was shot by masked riot police officers on Jan. 24 while laying flowers in Tahrir Square. She and other activists had come to mark the fourth anniversary of the start of Egypt s Arab Spring uprising. Attempts by friends and bystanders to save her life failed. Ms. Sabbagh s funeral the next day in Alexandria drew crowds of mourners. Ms. Sabbagh has become a symbol of the Egyptian authorities intolerance of protest.

A female demonstrator was killed in clashes with Egyptian police during a protest in central Cairo today on the eve of the anniversary of the 2011 uprising against Hosni Mubarak. A health ministry spokesman said Shaima al-Sabbagh died of birdshot wounds, which fellow protesters said were fired by police to disperse the march.