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Out of Egypt: Live ammo, beatings, stripping
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
• A video showed police beating a woman and others trying to help her
• The violence occurred in Cairo's Tahrir Square Saturday during a stretch of unrest
• Twitter hashtags emerged -- #Tahrirwoman and #Bluebra
• A relative says of Suleiman's beating, "I'm glad her father didn't see this day"
By Mohammed Jamjoom and Mohamed Fadel Fahmy, CNN
updated 1:48 AM EST, Fri December 23, 2011
Cairo (CNN) -- When Azza Hilal Suleiman saw Egyptian military pummel the veiled woman, she stepped in to help and got kicked and clubbed by security forces, a beating that was captured in a video that went viral around the world and also showed live gunfire and the violent removal of a Muslim woman's clothing.
"A veiled woman was injured and the army stripped her," she told CNN in an exclusive interview from her hospital bed in Cairo, suffering from painful skull fractures and facial cuts.
She couldn't stand to see the repeated blows to the woman, who was dragged, kicked, partially stripped and then stomped. "So I ran and tried to cover her body and pull her out," Suleiman said.
"We tried to cover her and pull her away but they beat us. I didn't feel anything after this."
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Full story & video (2:39):
http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/22/world/africa/egypt-woman-attacked/index.html?hpt=iaf_t3
