A protester was shot dead by police at a march in downtown Cairo on Saturday, her political party said in a statement.
Police shot Shaimaa el-Sabagh with bird shot Saturday evening as her group peacefully marched toward Tahrir Square to lay a commemorative wreath of roses on the eve of the fourth anniversary of Egypt’s 2011 uprising, the leftist Popular Alliance party said.
A Health Ministry official confirmed that a female protester died from bird shot injuries to her head and body.
Photos widely distributed on social media showed Sabagh carrying a wreath of roses, and then bloodied and being carried by another protester.
Security officials said they arrested 11 people following clashes.
Ahead of the fourth anniversary of the uprising, the revolutionary fervor of 2011 has been largely extinguished.
Many of the pro-democracy activists central to the uprising are in prison for attempting to protest against the new president, former army chief Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi.
Others are dismissed in the media as troublemakers, while the police, who in the revolutionaries’ eyes were the hated tools of oppression, are now lauded in the press as heroes in a fight against Islamists.